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| Size | About 4700 items (7.0 linear feet) |
| Abstract | Scott Hoyman was an organizer and a bargainer with the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), serving as the Southern Regional Director in the 1960s and 1970s. The TWUA actively sought to organize southern textile plants to help workers achieve higher wages, health insurance, and other benefits, and to insure fair labor practices. The collection contains correspondence, reports, minutes, agendas, pro-union and anti-union handouts and flyers, clippings, pictures, and other materials related to Scott Hoyman's activities with the TWUA. Materials document the internal functions of the TWUA, such as meetings, conferences, elections, and funding; the union's work with various organizations, including the Federation of Textile Representatives (FTR), and the AFL-CIO; TWUA's merger with Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to become the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU); organizing campaigns in North Carolina and South Carolina, most notably the J. P. Stevens Campaign; staff training and education; organizing tactics; membership drives and figures; the union's policies on political and industrial issues; and trends and events in the textile industry. Notable subjects include biennial conventions, Chatham Manufacturing Company, Collins & Aikman Corporation, Erwin Cotton Mills, executive council meetings, the Federation of Textile Representatives, GARCO (General Asbestos and Rubber Division, Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.), handouts and flyers, Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, J. P. Stevens & Co., Lone Star Textiles, outgoing mail, and southern staff conferences. |
| Creator | Textile Workers Union of America. South Region. |
| Language | English. |
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Subject Headings
The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.
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Historical Information
In 1901, the United Textile Workers of America (UTW), was formed as an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). In 1937, the Committee for Industrial Organization (later the Congress of Industrial Organizations or CIO) formed the Textile Workers Organizing Committee (TWOC). In 1939, locals from the TWOC and the UTW merged to form the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). The TWUA led numerous organizing campaigns in the union-resistant South, desiring to help textile workers achieve higher wages, health insurance, and other benefits, and to insure fair labor practices. In 1976, the TWUA merged with another textile union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, to form the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), which was affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
Scott Hoyman was an organizer and a bargainer with the TWUA, serving as the Southern Regional Director in the 1960s and 1970s. He worked on numerous organization and wage campaigns, including the J. P. Stevens & Co. campaign to organize workers and investigate unfair labor practices. Following the formation of the ACTWU in 1976, Hoyman became Executive Vice-President for the Textiles Division.
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Correspondence, reports, minutes, agendas, pro-union and anti-union handouts and flyers, clippings, pictures, and other materials related to Scott Hoyman's work as the Southern Regional Director of the Textiles Workers Union of America (TWUA) in the 1960s and 1970s. Materials document the internal functions of the TWUA, including meetings, conferences, elections, and funding; the union's work with various organizations, including the Federation of Textile Representatives (FTR) and the AFL-CIO; the 1976 TWUA's merger with Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to form the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU); organizing campaigns in North Carolina and South Carolina, most notably at J. P. Stevens & Co.; staff training and education; organizing tactics; membership drives and figures; the union's policies on political and industrial issues; and trends and events in the textile industry. Materials relate to biennial conventions, Chatham Manufacturing Company, Collins & Aikman Corporation, Erwin Cotton Mills, executive council meetings, the Federation of Textile Representatives, GARCO (General Asbestos and Rubber Division, Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.), handouts and flyers, Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, J. P. Stevens & Co., Lone Star Textiles, outgoing mail, and southern staff conferences.
Materials received in folders labeled with subject titles were retained in that order. Other materials were placed in chronological order during processing. The collection, therefore, has both chronological and subject files, and both series contain related materials.
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Series 1. Chronological Files, 1947-1980.
Arrangement: chronological.
Reports, correspondence, minutes, flyers, pamphlets, clippings, pictures, and other materials related to Scott Hoyman's activities with the Textile Workers Union of America dating from 1947 through 1980. Correspondence concerns organizing drives, meetings, and other routine functions of the TWUA Reports document the various activities of the union, including membership, elections, and funding, in addition to various aspects of the textile industry, such as earnings, working conditions, and individual plants. Minutes are from the southern staff conference meetings. Also included are materials concerning organizing tactics and both pro-union and anti-union flyers and pamphlets.
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Series 2. Subject Files, 1953-1981.
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject. Most files retain the original titles assigned by Hoyman.
Subject files containing correspondence, reports, minutes, agendas, handouts and flyers, clippings, pictures, and other materials related to Scott Hoyman's work as the Southern Regional Director of the Textiles Workers Union of America in the 1960s and 1970s. Materials document the internal functions of the TWUA, such as meetings, conferences, elections, and funding; the union's work with various organizations, including the Federation of Textile Representatives (FTR). and the AFL-CIO; the TWUA's merger with Amalgamated Clothing to become the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU); organizing campaigns in North Carolina and South Carolina, most notably the J. P. Stevens & Co. Campaign; staff training and education; organizing tactics; membership drives and figures; union policies on political and industrial issues; and trends and events in the textile industry. Notable subjects include biennial conventions, Chatham Manufacturing Company, Collins & Aikman Corporation, Erwin Cotton Mills, executive council meetings, the Federation of Textile Representatives, GARCO(General Asbestos and Rubber Division, Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.), handouts and flyers, Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, J. P. Stevens & Co., Lone Star Textiles, outgoing mail, and southern staff conferences. Museum items include a TWUA pin and tie tack, delegate badges to conferences, and various buttons.
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Items Separated
Items separated include pictures (P-5103/1), oversized papers (OP-5103/1-2) and museum items (MU-5103/1-10).
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