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Textile Workers Strike
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Textile workers strike in Alabama. Signs in back read, "This Company Is Unfair To The Laboring Class + It Is Your Fight As Well As Ours. Don't Scab. Dallas Local #43 TWUA CIO" and "Only a Scab Will Cross a Picket Line. Dallas Local #43 TWUA CIO." Two young boys are surrounded by men listening to a man with his back to the camera.
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George Baldanzi
1952
Portrait of George Baldanzi, founding executive vice president of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). He was deputy director for Operation Dixie, the Congress of Industrial Organization's ...
Alabama Textile Workers Conference
Image caption reads: "Textile workers conference, Central Alabama, 1939-seated back row Weatherspoon, next Zilphia Horton, next Alabama director, behind podium Roy Lawrence, directly behind him in ...
TWUA Strike Meeting
June 13, 1954
TWUA officials are shown seated at a table during a strike meeting with picket signs in front of the table. From left to right are business manager Charles E. Hughes, president Carmen Rose, 1st vic...
Police Near Cars at Textile Workers Strike
1937
Police standing near their cars near a textile workers strike. The spare tire in the foreground reads, "Drive Safely".
Textile Workers Convention
Early CIO convention-organizers and union officials at a textile workers [?] convention.
William Pollock
Quarter-lenth portrait of William Pollock, a long-standing union official. Pollock was business agent for United Textile Workers (UTW) Local 25 from 1931-1937, when he became manager of the Textile...
