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Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union: Textile Division fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1920-1980.

Reference:

R5230-0-3-E, MG28-I219

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Objects (including medals and pins), Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105490

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Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union: Textile Division fonds
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Fonds includes:

10 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1920-1980.

Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

France, United States

Extent:

26.18 m of textual records.
218 photographs : chiefly b&w.
5 badges.
1 film reel (21 min).

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French
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Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union-Textile Division fonds [textual record]

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union-Textile Division fonds [textual record]

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union-Textile Division fonds [textual record]

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union-Textile Division fonds [textual record]

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union-Textile Division fonds [textual record]

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union-Textile Division fonds [textual record]

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union-Textile Division fonds [textual record]

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union-Textile Division fonds [textual record]

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union-Textile Division fonds [textual record]

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union-Textile Division fonds [textual record]

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union fonds [textual records]
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Fonds consists of Canadian national office records, n.d., 1948-1976, 3.83 m; Local 1430, n.d., 1920-1974, 0.4 m; South-Western Ontario Joint Textile Board records, n.d., 1945-1967, 7.15 m; Greater Toronto Textile Joint Board, n.d., 1957-1970, 7.2 m; and Greater Cornwall Textile Joint Board, n.d., 1933-1980, 7.56 m.

Fonds also contains photographs related to activities of locals of Textile Workers Union of America in Canada, including meetings, picnics, and picketing, [ca. 1954-1962]; a photograph of a business block in Galt, Ont., damaged by fire, 1960; and an aerial view showing the Courtaulds Textile plant and part of the town of Cornwall, [ca. 1930].

In addition, fonds contains 2 Textile Workers Union of America badges, 1 Textile Workers Union of America Steward badge, 1 Amalgamated Clothing and Textiles Workers Union Retired Member badge, and 1 Textile Workers Union of America 30th Anniversary in Canada badge, [ca. 1975].

Also included is the National Film Board of Canada documentary film entitled Local 100 = Contrat de travail (1950). The film tells the story of how Local 100, an affiliate of a national union, was formed.

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Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union

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Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union : In an effort to expand and consolidate union organization in the textile industry, the Canadian Congress of Labour asked the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) to come to Canada in 1945. Locals affiliated with the Congress' Textile Workers Union Organizing Committee and with the National Union of Textile Workers subsequently joined the TWUA, whose first Canadian Director was Sam Baron. His successors were J. Harold Daoust (1951-1954) and George C. Watson (1965-1977). The TWUA quickly became the largest textile workers union in Canada, with contracts for workers employed in major mills such as Canadian Cottons plants in Ontario and New Brunswick, Courtaulds Ltd. in Cornwall and Monarch Knitting Mills in Toronto. Joint boards were set up to coordinate and supervise the locals in centers of the industry including Toronto, Southwestern Ontario, Cornwall and the Eastern Townships.

In 1976, the TWUA merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to form the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Charles (Bud) Clarke succeeded George Watson as the director of the textile workers division of the new union in 1977.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a file list. MSS1110 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001781.pdf

Moving images: (Electronic) Refer to MINISIS for item-level descriptions.

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General note:

Two posters have been placed in horizontal storage - Barrymore Cloth Co., Rules and Regulations, ca. 1940, and Tilco Plastics Strike, Peterborough (1965-1967), "Would You Go To Jail to Protect Your Rights?".
Received in 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1976 from Mrs. K.P. Kirkwood and in 1990 from Mr. Roman Christians, Ottawa, Ont. The records of the Canadian national Office of the TWUA were received between 1975 and 1977, and those of the South-Western Ontario Joint Board in 1977. Material from Local 1430 was received from Ed Seymour, Canadian Education Director of the TWUA in 1976. The records of the Greater Toronto Textile Joint Board and the Greater Cornwall Textile Joint Board were received in 1979 and 1980 respectively. Moving images received in 1981.

Related material:

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America fonds (R3271 / MG28-I228)., For audio-visual materials, see audio-visual database ISN catalogue number 42559 and 443946.
Subject heading:

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American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

Trade-unions - Canada, n.d., 1920-1980 Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, n.d., 1920-1980

Trade-unions - Canada - History, n.d., 1920-1980 Textile Workers Union of America. Canadian National Office, [n.d., 1920-1980]

Trade-unions - Clothing workers - Canada, n.d., 1920-1980 Baron, Baldanzi vs. Rieve, 1950-1951

Trade-unions - Textile workers - Canada, n.d., 1920-1980 Eastern Townships (Quebec), n.d., 1962-1967

Trade-unions - Local unions, n.d., 1920-1980 Confederation of National Trade Unions, n.d., 1962-1967

Newsletters - Canada, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1971, 1973 Spinrite Yarns (Listowel, Ont.), 1966-1967

Textile Workers Union of America - Meetings, [n.d., 1920-1980] Tilco Plastics Limited (Peterborough, Ont.), 1965-1967

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union - History, [n.d., 1920-1980] Textile Workers Union of America. Fourteenth Biennial Convention, 1966

Textile Workers Union of America - History, n.d., 1920-1980 Canadian Labour Congress, n.d., 1948, 1956, 1960-1968

Trade-unions - Quebec (Province), n.d., 1962-1967 Ontario Federation of Labour, n.d., 1948, 1956, 1960-1968

Trade-unions - Officials and employees, [n.d., 1951, 1952, 1963-1967] Canadian Textile Council, n.d., 1950-1955, 1957, 1962-1971

Textile industry - Canada, n.d., 1920-1980 Canadian Textile Institute, n.d., 1950-1955, 1957, 1962-1971

Trade-unions - Canada - Strikes, n.d., 1963-1967 Federation of Textile Representatives, n.d., 1953, 1964-1967

Trade-unions - Textile workers - Organizing, n.d., 1951, 1955-1967 Textile Labor, [1953-1976]

Labour - History, n.d., 1920-1980 Textile Workers Union of America. Local 1430, [n.d., 1920-1974]

Labour disputes - Canada, n.d., 1963-1967 Harding Carpets Limited (Brantford, Ont.), n.d., 1920-1974

Labour organization - Canada, n.d., 1920-1980 Canadian Brussels Carpet Weavers Beneficial Association, [n.d., 1920-1974]

Governmental investigations - Canada, [n.d., 1950-1955, 1957, 1962-1971] Brussels Carpet Weavers Association, [n.d., 1920-1974]

Union dues, n.d., 1963, 1965-1968 South Western Ontario Joint Textile Board, n.d., 1945-1967

Canadian Labour Congress - Finance, n.d., 1963, 1965-1968 Greater Toronto Textile Joint Board, n.d., 1957-1970

Textile Workers Union of America - Publishing, n.d., 1953-1976 Greater Cornwall Textile Joint Board, n.d., 1933-1980

Arbitration, Industrial, [n.d., 1920-1974] Textile Workers Union of America. Local 779, n.d., 1933-1980

Courtaulds (Canada) Limited, n.d., 1933-1980

Labour - unions and organizations - archival fonds
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1973-06-03)
1977-258 NPC
1979/0382
1980-158 NPC
1980/0021
1980/0437
1981-0166 MISA
1981/0047
1983-013 MED
1983/0073
1984/0013
1984/0045
1985-292 NPC
1985/0055
1986/0052
1986/0559
1987/0112
1999-01204-6
MG28-I219

Former archival reference no.:

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MG28-I219
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000156.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]
Textual records: Access restrictions.

Volume [MG28 I 219] 135--136

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Finding aid box [FA 1110] 96

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [TEXTILE WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA 1977-258] 3785

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [AMALGAMATED CLOTHING AND TEXTILE WORKERS UNION 1985-292] 5790

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [TEXTILE WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA 1980-158] 5846

[Consultation 90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions. Various copyright on items less than 50 years old. Copyright expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no. Badges: No restrictions. Copyright: Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Moving images: Reproduction with written permission of copyright owner and donor.

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