Textile Workers Union of America Records, 1915-1994

 
Contents List
Container Title
Subseries: File 15A: Dyers Federation File, 1937-1948
Physical Description: 3 boxes 
Scope and Content Note

Although commonly known as the Dyers Federation, this department of TWUA is properly named the Federation of Dyers, Finishers, Printers, and Bleachers of America.

The file includes contracts negotiated by the Textile Workers Organizing Committee in 1937, and other records through 1948. They include arbitration briefs and decisions; financial data relating to employers, and wage statistics. Subject content relates to appeals and hearings of expelled union members, wage and contract negotiations, strikes, data on regional wage disputes, and decisions of the National War Labor Board.

A single folder, labeled “Italian Aid Incorporated,” contains an undated list of individuals and associations who contributed gifts or purchased raffle tickets.

Box   1
Arbitration Crises regarding Discharge, 1943
Box   1
Arbitration Crises regarding Discharge, 1948
Box   1
Bradford Dyeing Association, 1941-1942
Box   1
Edwards & Angell, 1943-1945
Box   1
Executive Council, A. Refy Jr. v. Lodi Local 1983; Wilson, Piraino, Watson & Litrento v. Local 1983
Box   1
Greenville Finishing Company, Greenville, Rhode Island, 1943
Box   1
Haverstraw-Beacon (leads), 1937-1939
Box   1
Haverstraw-Area, Sanco Piece Dye Works, Elk Piece Dye Works, Capitol Piece Dye Works, 1938-1939
Box   1
Haverstraw Area, Sanco-Capitol-Elk, 1940
Box   1
Haverstraw, 1943-1945
Box   1
Italian Aid Incorporated, undated
Box   1
Metropolitan Employers regarding New England Wage Dispute, 1942
Box   1
Machine Print Arbitration, 1947
Box   1
Miscellaneous Correspondence regarding New England Dispute on Insurance, 1943-1944
Box   2
Brief: Federation of Dyers v. New England Finishers, 1942
Box   2
Newspaper Items, 1940
Box   2
Nine New England Finishing Companies Dispute on Wages and Insurance, 1943-1944
North Carolina Finishing Company, Salisbury, North Carolina
Box   2
Case V-R-1070, 1943
Box   2
Case V-C-1284, 1942-1943
Box   2
Miscellanous, 1942-1943
Box   3
John Bello - Organizer, New Jersey, 1938
Box   3
Capitol and Sanco Cases, 1943
Box   3
Capitol-Sanco Piece Dye Works, 1939-1940
Box   3
Dyers Federation Wage Statistics, 1942
Box   3
Sanco Phillipsburg, 1942
Box   3
Shamokin Dye & Print Works, 1943
Box   3
Shift Differential and Work Clothes, 1944-1945
Box   3
Strike, New England Dispute, 1945
Box   3
TWOC - Contracts, 1937-1938
Box   3
United Piece Dye Works Incorporated, Strike, 1947
Box   3
United States Finishing Company, Norwich and Sterling Connecticut, 1943
Box   3
Vacation Allowances Approved, 1943-1944
Box   3
Wages, Theodore Khiel - National War Labor Board, regarding New England Wage Dispute, 1942
Box   3
Wages, National Wage Increase, 1944-1945