Edna Mill Records Inventory (#4906)

Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Contact Information:

Manuscripts Department

CB#3926, Wilson Library

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890

Phone: 919/962-1345

Fax: 919/962-3594

Email: mss@email.unc.edu

URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/

Processed by

Adera Scheinker and Roslyn Holdzkom

Date Completed

October 2001

Encoded by

Roslyn Holdzkom

Descriptive Summary Including Abstract

Title

Edna Mill Records (#4906) 1891-1959

Creator

Edna Mill (Reidsville, N.C.).

Extent

About 500 items (1.5 linear feet)

Repository

Southern Historical Collection

Abstract

The Edna Mill was a textile mill incorporated in 1889 in Reidsville, N.C. The mill was owned by Willis Benton Pipkin. It became part of the Cone Mills organization in 1946. Records of the Edna Mill include documents reporting finances and wages, financial history, and audits. There is also a 1942 report by owner Willis Benton Pipkin discussing a possible 10-cent-per-hour increase in wages for workers; correspondence between representatives of the Edna Mill and the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA); agreements made between the union and Edna Mill; minutes of TWUA-Edna Mill meetings and the Edna Mill Grievance Committee meetings; lists of Edna Mill union members; flyers promoting the union; and booklets outlining TWUA policies and methods of collective bargaining. Also included are news clippings about union activities at Edna Mill, an anti-union speech delivered by Pipkin, and an anti-union flyer distributed by Edna Mill. There are also corporate minutes, 1931-1944; a 1937 scrapbook with clippings about labor relations; and a short history of Edna Mills that was written by Pipkin in 1959.

Administrative Information

Access

No restrictions.

Usage Restrictions

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Provenance

Received from Ash Pipkin of Raleigh, N.C., in November 1997 (Acc. 97159), September 2000 (Acc. 98736), November 2000 (Acc. 98792), and May 2001 (Acc. 98950).

Online Catalog Terms

Edna Mill (Reidsville, N.C.).

Industrial relations--North Carolina.

North Carolina--Economic conditions.

Pipkin, Willis Benton, b. 1906.

Textile industry--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Textile Workers Union of America--History.

Textile workers--Labor unions--Southern States--History--20th century.

Historical Note

The Edna Mill was a textile mill incorporated in 1889 in Reidsville, N.C. The mill was owned by Willis Benton Pipkin. It became part of the Cone Mills organization in 1946.

Collection Overview

Records of the Edna Mill, a textile mill in Reidsville, N.C., include documents reporting finances and wages, financial history, and audits. There is also a 1942 report by owner Willis Benton Pipkin discussing a possible 10-cent-per-hour increase in wages for textile workers; correspondence between representatives of the Edna Mill and the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA); agreements made between the union and Edna Mill; minutes of TWUA-Edna Mill meetings and the Edna Mill Grievance Committee meetings; lists of Edna Mill union members; flyers promoting the union; and booklets outlining TWUA policies and methods of collective bargaining. Also included are news clippings about union activities at Edna Mill, an anti-union speech delivered by Pipkin, and an anti-union flyer distributed by Edna Mill. There are also corporate minutes, 1931-1944; a 1937 scrapbook with clippings about labor relations; and a short history of Edna Mills that was written by Pipkin in 1959.

Description

Items Separated

Separated items include a 1937 scrapbook (V-4906/S-1).