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Textile Leaders
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Two men are seated at a table. One is looking at the other. Caption reads: "TEXTILE LEADERS met at Western hemisphere conference of International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in Mexico City last month. On left is Francesco Marquez of CTM [Confederación de Trabajadores de México], Mexican textile union. On right is TWUA [Textile Workers Union of America] General Secretary-Treasurer William Pollock.
February 3, 1951
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Emil Rieve and William Pollock
1954
Textile Workers Union of America [TWUA] General President Emil Rieve and Executive Vice President William Pollock posing shaking hands. A caption identifies the setting as the 1954 TWUA convention.
William Pollock
Quarter-length 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 Textil...
William Pollock
Quarter-length 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 Textil...
William Pollock
1937
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 Joint Board, ...
William Pollock
1937
Portrait of William Pollock, at the time we was manager of the Philadelphia Joint Board of the Textile Workers Organizing Committee.
George Baldanzi
Line-drawn caricature profile of TWUA founding executive vice president George Baldanzi.
