Background on Textile Workers of America New Bedford Joint Board
The Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) was created in 1939, formed from a combination of the Textile Workers Organizing Committee (TWOC-CIO) and the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA). At the time, there were four local unions in the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts (Locals 19, 30, 46, and 136), all under the jurisdiction of TWOC-CIO. With the creation of TWUA in 1939, these locals affiliated themselves with the New Bedford Joint Board. At its peak, the New Bedford Joint Board, TWUA represented approximately 14,000 workers. For more information about the Textile Workers Union of America and the New Bedford, see the pamphlets and booklets in box 19.
Scope of collection
By-laws, minutes of board of directors and local meetings, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and scrapbooks relating to the administration of the New Bedford Joint Board, documenting its role in addressing grievances filed against individual companies, in facilitating arbitration, and hearing wage stabilization Board cases. Correspondents include J. William Belanger (first president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO), Victor Canzano (a member of the Executive Council of TWUA), John Chupka (general secretary-treasurer of TWUA), Arthur Harriman (mayor of New Bedford), and William Pollock (an executive vice president and later general president of TWUA). The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, dated from 1960 to 1971, that pertain to the New Bedford Joint Board and labor issues concerning the state of Massachusetts and the nation as a whole.
Arrangement
This collection is organized into four series:
Inventory
Series 1. Administration
1947-1970
By-laws
1954, 1961
Box 1: 1-2
New Bedford Joint Board History
1964
Box 1: 3
Board of Directors, Minutes
1947-1967
Box 1: 4-13
Berkshire-Hathaway Coordinating Committee, Minutes
1961-1962
Box 2: 14
Local 30, Minutes
1959-1960
Box 2: 15
Local 590, Minutes
1954-1960
Box 2: 16-17
Local 616, Minutes
1959-1960
Box 2: 18
Local 1123, Minutes
1959-1960
Box 2: 19
Local 1124, Minutes
1959-1960
Box 2: 20
Local 1129, Minutes
1954-1960
Box 2: 21-22
Local 1192, Minutes
1960
Box 2: 23
Local 1393, Minutes
1959
Box 2: 24
Local Petitions
1958-1960
Box 2: 25
Correspondence - General
1965-1968
Box 3: 26-29
AFL-CIO
1949-1957
Box 3: 30
Belanger, J. Wm.
1959-1964
Box 3: 31-32
Canzano, Victor
1959-1966
Box 3: 33-37
Chupka, John
1960-1967
Box 4: 38-44
Mayor, Harriman, Arthur
1951
Box 4: 45
Legislative Comm.
1955-1965
Box 4: 46
Pollock, William
1959-1970
Box 4: 47-49
Series 2. Subject Files
1944-1981
CIO Veterans Committee
1944-1946
Box 5: 50
Dyers and Printers Pension Fund
1950-1951
Box 5: 51
Labor Day Celebrations
1952-1957
Box 5: 52
Leadership Training Institute
1962
Box 5: 53
Massachusetts (State) Advisory Committee on the Textile Industry
1950-1962
Box 5: 54
Massachusetts AFL-CIO Conventions
1966-1977
Box 5: 55-57
Massachusetts Division of Employment Security
1946-1956
Box 5: 58
Massachusetts Workmen's Compensation Laws
1946-1952
Box 5: 59
New Bedford & Cape Cod Labor Council
1956-1968
Box 5: 60-61
New Bedford Fair Employment Practices Council
1949-1950
Box 5: 62
New Bedford Joint Board, Officer Installations
1949-1959
Box 6: 63
New Bedford Textile Institute
1951-1958
Box 6: 64
Steward's Manual
n.d.
Box 6: 65
TWUA Conventions
1958-1981
Box 6: 67
TWUA Cotton and Rayon Conference
1947
Box 6: 68
TWUA Institutes
1951-1964
Box 6: 69
TWUA Tenth Anniversary
1949
Box 6: 70
TWUA Woolen and Worsteds Conference
1947
Box 6: 71
Unemployment
1944-1947
Box 6: 72
United States Department of Labor
1951-1956
Box 6: 73
United Textile Workers
1957
Box 6: 74
Vacation Pay
1950
Box 6: 75
War Manpower Commission Case
1945
Box 6: 76
Series 3. Arbitration and Grievance
1942-1977
General Information
1948-1976
Box 7: 77
American Arbitration Association
1955-1977
Box 7: 78
American Woolen Company
1949-1954
Box 7: 79
Alanjo, Inc.
1947
Box 7: 80
Allen Beam Co.
1945-1951
Box 7: 81-82
Fawcett Mills
1962
Box 7: 83
Firestone Textiles
1945-1949
Box 7: 84-88
Fisk Card Mills
1951
Box 7: 89-90
Gosnold Mills Corp.
1946-1954
Box 7: 91-93
Kilburn Mill
1949-1950
Box 8: 94-96
Nashwena Mills
1944-1949
Box 8: 97-100
Naushon Mills
1944-1948
Box 8: 101-102
New Bedford Cordage
1942-1953
Box 8: 103-107
New Bedford Cotton Manufacturer's Association
1944-1945
Box 8: 108-110
New Bedford Cotton Textile Mills
1946
Box 8: 111
New Bedford - Fall River Manufacturer's Association
1946-1949
Box 8: 112-113
Nonquitt Mills
1943-1946
Box 8: 114-116
Nonquitt Mills
1949-1950
Box 9: 117-118
Normandy Print Works
1949
Box 9: 119
Pierce Brothers
1947-1950
Box 9: 120-124
Rayon Company
1942-1962
Box 9: 125-134
Rayon Company
1962-1968
Box 10: 135-143
Seaplant Chemical Corp.
1952-1957
Box 10: 144-147
Soule Mills
1943-1947
Box 10: 148-156
Soule Mills
1948-1949
Box 11: 157-160
United States Rubber Co.
1944-1953
Box 11: 161-168
Wamsutta Mills
1948-1950
Box 11: 169-171
Wamsutta Mills
1956-1959
Box 12: 172-175
General File - Grievance Ledger
1943-1953
Box 13: 176
Alanjo, Inc.
1948
Box 13: 177
Allen Beam
1955-1957
Box 13: 178-179
Cameo Curtains
1972-1974
Box 13: 180
Gosnold Mills Corp.
1950-1954
Box 13: 181-189
Hathaway Manufacturing Co.
1949
Box 13: 190-191
Kilburn Mill
1943-1950
Box 13: 192
Krim-Ko
1952-1959
Box 13: 193
Lambeth Corp.
1946-1977
Box 13: 194
Nashwena Mills
1945-1952
Box 14: 195-201
Naushon Mills
1943-1948
Box 14: 202
New Bedford Cordage
1947-1959
Box 14: 203
New Bedford Knitting Co.
1955
Box 14: 204
New Bedford Rayon Co.
1943-1970
Box 14: 205
Nonquitt Mills
1944
Box 14: 206
Normandy Print Works
1951-1952
Box 14: 207
Quisset Screen Print
1943-1950
Box 14: 208-209
Rubin, J. &- Sons
1964-1965
Box 14: 210
Salco Products Corp.
1961
Box 14: 211
Soule Mill
1943-1954
Box 14: 212
Soule Mill
1949-1953
Box 15: 213-223
United States Rubber Co.
1944-1953
Box 15: 224-225
Wamsutta Mills
1943-1957
Box 15: 226-230
Retirement Notices - Soule Mill
1955-1957
Box 16: 231
Retirement Notices - Berkshire-Hathaway
1959-1963
Box 16: 232
Vacation Pay Disputes
1944-1947
Box 16: 233
Subseries C. Massachusetts Wage Stabilization Board Cases
WSB Manual
1951
Box 17: 234
General Information
1951-1953
Box 17: 235-239
Allen Beam Co.
1951
Box 17: 240
Gosnold Mill
1951
Box 17: 241
Kilburn Mill
1951
Box 17: 242
Krim-Ko Corp.
1951
Box 17: 243
Lillie, Dexter P.
1951
Box 17: 244
New Bedford Cordage
1951
Box 17: 246
New Bedford Joint Board
1951
Box 17: 247
New Bedford Knitting Co.
1951
Box 17: 248
New Bedford Rayon Co.
1951
Box 17: 249
New Bedford Shuttle Co.
1951
Box 17: 250
New England Stencil Co.
1951
Box 17: 251
Normandy Print Works
1951-1952
Box 17: 252
Quisset Print Works
1952
Box 17: 253
Sedman Weaving Corp.
1951
Box 17: 254
Soule Mill
1951
Box 17: 255
United State Rubber Co.
1951
Box 17: 256
Universal Converting Corp.
1951
Box 17: 257
Wamsutta Mill
1951
Box 17: 258
Series 4. Miscellaneous
1944-1971
NLRB Non-Communist Affidavits
1955-1956
Box 18: 259-265
New Bedford Silver Anniversary Booklet
1964
Box 19: 266
"Building a Textile Union"
1948
Box 19: 267
"They Said It Couldn't Be Done"
1964
Box 19: 268
"Field Day, Lincoln Park, 1944" Souvenir
1944
Box 19: 269
Scrapbook
1960-1961
Box 19: 270
Scrapbook
1966-1968
Box 19: 271
Scrapbook
1970-1971
Box 19: 272
Administrative information
Search terms
Subjects
- Congress of Industrial Organizations.
- Labor unions--Massachusetts--New Bedford.
- New Bedford (Mass.)--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Textile industry--Massachusetts.
Contributors
- Textile Workers of America New Bedford Joint Board [main entry]
- Belanger, J. William.
- Canzano, Victor.
- Chupka, John.
- Harriman, Arthur.
- Pollock, William.
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