The Textile Workers Union of America requested that the weekly expense reports of organizers be destroyed. In order to comply with this request, while preserving the organizers' weekly activity reports which were on the back of the expense reports, the activity reports were microfilmed, and the original sheets destroyed.

These are reports submitted by individual organizers of the Textile Workers Union, showing the activities in which they were engaged each day of the week immediately preceding the date of the report. At the local level these activities included attendance at local union meetings; contacting employees or organizing campaigns and finding local leaders; addressing mass meetings of employees; negotiating with employers for recognition of the union; printing and distributing leaflets; organizing plant elections; and investigating shop problems.

Activities also included contract negotiations; supervision of strike votes; picket line activity; strike strategy meetings; and sometimes going to court. Other reported activities were arbitration hearings; National Labor Relations Board hearings; legislative hearings; meetings with state industrial commissions; meetings with senators and congressmen about legislation following passage of the Taft-Hartley Act; and attendance at union or political conventions.

About twenty per cent of the reports received were microfilmed before destruction. Selection was made on the basis of completeness of the reports, location of the organizer's activities, and the type of activities. In a few cases it was necessary to retain reports which were only fair, because it was necessary to show that there was organizing activity in an area. Presumably the activities of the organizers were much the same, but some of them submitted more complete reports. While these are detailed daily reports, they do not always indicate the initial or terminal dates of a project, or whether it was successful.