This is a small group of records relating to the early history of the Textile Workers Organizing Committee, found in the office of Solomon Barkin shortly after his retirement as Director of Research in 1963. These papers include accounts of the great textile strike of 1934 and discuss both general and specific causes of the strike. There is an evaluation of the effects of the National Industrial Recovery Act on the textile industry, and an account of a mass funeral of six union pickets killed by gunfire at Chiquola Mill in Honea Path, South Carolina.

This file includes lists of workers and sympathizers killed in strike violence in 1934; mimeographed news releases and strike reports; tabulated statistics on organizing activities; discussions about volunteer organizers; and organizing reports. Also there is a copy of an uncompleted contract between the Committee for Industrial Organization and the United Textile Workers of America, specifying the conditions under which the Textile Workers Organizing Committee would be activated.