Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Copyright Notice

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

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Myron Howard Ross Papers, #4079, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy available.

Acquisitions Information

Acquired 1975

Additional Descriptive Resources

Original finding aid is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

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• Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America.
• International Fur and Leather Workers Union of the United States and Canada. Local 420.
• Laundry workers--Labor unions--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Company.
• R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
• Ross, Myron Howard, 1918-1987.
• Strikes and lockouts--Laundry workers--North Carolina.
• Strikes and lockouts--Tobacco industry--North Carolina.
• Tobacco Workers International Union.
• Tobacco Workers International Union. Local 22.
• Tobacco workers--Labor unions--Organizing--North Carolina.
• Tobacco workers--Labor unions--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• United Mine Workers of America.
• Winston Leaf Tobacco Company.

Myron Howard Ross of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a United Mine Workers leader.

The collection consists of papers collected by Ross relating to two predominantly black labor unions in Winston-Salem, N.C.: Local 22 of the Tobacco Workers Union, an affiliate of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of America; and Local 420 of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union, which also included laundry workers. The papers consist principally of mimeographed letters, reports, broadsides, and clippings, and relate to the Tobacco Workers Union campaign to organize workers in Winston-Salem; relations with the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; and strikes in 1946 against local laundries, the Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Company, and the Winston Leaf Tobacco Company.

• Extra-oversize paper folder (X-OPF-4079/1)