Carroll H. Bush Hosiery Workers Union Files
Collection Number: 6558
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Carroll H. Bush Hosiery Workers
Union Files, 1919-1938
Collection Number:
6558
Creator:
Bush, Carroll H.;
Hosiery Workers Union
Hosiery Workers Union
Quantity:
0.2 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents).
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Contains forms, flyers, blank pledge cards & guidelines
for organizers from various unions for hosiery workers. Also correspondence, a dues
book, pamphlets, proceedings, constitutions, bylaws, etc. Unions include: American
Federation of Hosiery Workers, New England Hosiery Workers, American Federation of
Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, Federation of Woolen and Worsted Workers of America,
and UTWA.
Language:
Collection material in English
Bush was a union organizer for workers in the hosiery industry. His activities took
place mostly in Massachusetts in the 1920's and 1930's. Among other things, he
served as secretary of the New England Hosiery Workers Organization Committee.
Contains forms, flyers, blank pledge cards, and guidelines for union organizers from
various labor unions for hosiery workers, including the American Federation of
Hosiery Workers, New England Hosiery Workers, the American Federation of Full
Fashioned Hosiery Workers, and the Federation of Woolen and Worsted Workers of
America. Also contains incoming correspondence, 1926-1929, 1934-1940, concerning
union activities, most from various hosiery workers' unions and from the United
Textile Workers of America; Bush's monthly dues book, 1919-1927, in the American
Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers; and resolutions concerning the 30-hour
week and other items of interest to labor. Includes pamphlets, proceedings,
constitutions, bylaws, etc., of various hosiery unions, and copies of Textile Notes,
1937-1938, published by the Labor Research Association.
PROVENANCE:
American Textile History Museum Collection.
American Textile History Museum Collection.
Names:
Bush, Carroll H.
Amerian Federation of Hosiery Workers.
American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery
Workers.
American Textile History Museum
Federation of Woolen and Worsted Workers of
America.
Mission Hosiery Mills
New England Hosiery Workers Organization
Committee.
Textile Workers Organizing Committee.
United Textile Workers of America.
Subjects:
Hosiery industry
Hosiery mills
Hosiery workers--Labor unions
Hours of labor
Labor unions
Industrial relations
Hosiery workers -- New England
Textile workers
Form and Genre Terms:
Records (documents)
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a
reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet
and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
Carroll H. Bush Hosiery Workers Union Files #6558. Kheel Center for
Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 | 1919-1927 | |
Box 1 | Folder 2 | 1926-1929 | |
Box 1 | Folder 3 | 1934 | |
Box 1 | Folder 4 | 1937 | |
Box 1 | Folder 5 | 1938 | |
Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1922 | |
Box 1 | Folder 7 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 8 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 9 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 10 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 11 | 1935 | |
Box 1 | Folder 12 | 1935 | |
Box 1 | Folder 13 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 14 | 1936 | |
Box 1 | Folder 15 | 1934-1936 | |
Box 1 | Folder 16 | 1937-1938 | |
Box 1 | Folder 17 | 1940 |