TWUA New Bedford Joint Board Records
Four local unions located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, that joined in 1939 and became the first affiliates of the New Bedford Joint Board of the Textile Workers Union of America. Includes by-laws, minutes of board of directors and local meetings, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and scrapbooks relating to the administration of the New Bedford Joint Board, documenting its role in addressing grievances filed against individual companies, in facilitating arbitration, and hearing wage stabilization Board cases.
The Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) was created in 1939, formed from a combination of the Textile Workers Organizing Committee (TWOC-CIO) and the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA). At the time, there were four local unions in the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts (Locals 19, 30, 46, and 136), all under the jurisdiction of TWOC-CIO. With the creation of TWUA in 1939, these locals affiliated themselves with the New Bedford Joint Board. At its peak, the New Bedford Joint Board, TWUA represented approximately 14,000 workers. For more information about the Textile Workers Union of America and the New Bedford, see the pamphlets and booklets in box 19.
By-laws, minutes of board of directors and local meetings, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and scrapbooks relating to the administration of the New Bedford Joint Board, documenting its role in addressing grievances filed against individual companies, in facilitating arbitration, and hearing wage stabilization Board cases. Correspondents include J. William Belanger (first president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO), Victor Canzano (a member of the Executive Council of TWUA), John Chupka (general secretary-treasurer of TWUA), Arthur Harriman (mayor of New Bedford), and William Pollock (an executive vice president and later general president of TWUA). The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, dated from 1960 to 1971, that pertain to the New Bedford Joint Board and labor issues concerning the state of Massachusetts and the nation as a whole.
This collection is organized into four series:
The collection is open for research.
Cite as: Textile Workers Union of America New Bedford Joint Board Records (MS 134). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Acquired from Bronwen Zwirner, ACTWU, Education Director, New England Joint Board.
Processed by Ken Fones-Wolf, February 1988.
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Series 1. Administration
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1947-1970
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By-laws
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1954, 1961
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Box 1:1-2
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New Bedford Joint Board History
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1964
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Box 1:3
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Board of Directors, Minutes
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1947-1967
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Box 1:4-13
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Berkshire-Hathaway Coordinating Committee, Minutes
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1961-1962
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Box 2:14
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Local 30, Minutes
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1959-1960
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Box 2:15
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Local 590, Minutes
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1954-1960
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Box 2:16-17
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Local 616, Minutes
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1959-1960
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Box 2:18
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Local 1123, Minutes
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1959-1960
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Box 2:19
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Local 1124, Minutes
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1959-1960
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Box 2:20
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Local 1129, Minutes
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1954-1960
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Box 2:21-22
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Local 1192, Minutes
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1960
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Box 2:23
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Local 1393, Minutes
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1959
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Box 2:24
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Local Petitions
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1958-1960
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Box 2:25
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Correspondence – General
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1965-1968
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Box 3:26-29
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AFL-CIO
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1949-1957
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Box 3:30
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Belanger, J. Wm.
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1959-1964
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Box 3:31-32
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Canzano, Victor
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1959-1966
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Box 3:33-37
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Chupka, John
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1960-1967
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Box 4:38-44
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Mayor, Harriman, Arthur
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1951
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Box 4:45
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Legislative Comm.
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1955-1965
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Box 4:46
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Pollock, William
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1959-1970
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Box 4:47-49
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Series 2. Subject Files
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1944-1981
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CIO Veterans Committee
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1944-1946
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Box 5:50
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Dyers and Printers Pension Fund
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1950-1951
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Box 5:51
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Labor Day Celebrations
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1952-1957
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Box 5:52
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Leadership Training Institute
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1962
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Box 5:53
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Massachusetts (State) Advisory Committee on the Textile Industry
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1950-1962
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Box 5:54
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Massachusetts AFL-CIO Conventions
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1966-1977
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Box 5:55-57
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Massachusetts Division of Employment Security
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1946-1956
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Box 5:58
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Massachusetts Workmen’s Compensation Laws
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1946-1952
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Box 5:59
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New Bedford & Cape Cod Labor Council
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1956-1968
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Box 5:60-61
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New Bedford Fair Employment Practices Council
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1949-1950
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Box 5:62
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New Bedford Joint Board, Officer Installations
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1949-1959
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Box 6:63
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New Bedford Textile Institute
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1951-1958
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Box 6:64
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Steward’s Manual
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n.d.
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Box 6:65
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Teamsters
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1962
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Box 6:66
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TWUA Conventions
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1958-1981
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Box 6:67
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TWUA Cotton and Rayon Conference
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1947
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Box 6:68
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TWUA Institutes
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1951-1964
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Box 6:69
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TWUA Tenth Anniversary
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1949
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Box 6:70
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TWUA Woolen and Worsteds Conference
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1947
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Box 6:71
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Unemployment
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1944-1947
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Box 6:72
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United States Department of Labor
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1951-1956
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Box 6:73
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United Textile Workers
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1957
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Box 6:74
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Vacation Pay
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1950
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Box 6:75
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War Manpower Commission Case
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1945
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Box 6:76
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Series 4. Miscellaneous
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1944-1971
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NLRB Non-Communist Affidavits
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1955-1956
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Box 18:259-265
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New Bedford Silver Anniversary Booklet
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1964
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Box 19:266
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“Building a Textile Union”
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1948
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Box 19:267
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“They Said It Couldn’t Be Done”
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1964
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Box 19:268
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“Field Day, Lincoln Park, 1944” Souvenir
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1944
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Box 19:269
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Scrapbook
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1960-1961
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Box 19:270
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Scrapbook
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1966-1968
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Box 19:271
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Scrapbook
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1970-1971
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Box 19:272
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