Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union

Muriel Tuteur Papers

abarker — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:10:32 -0400

An active advocate for child welfare, social justice, and the labor movement, Muriel Tuteur held a variety of posts, including Director of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) Day Care and Health Center, and Assistant Director of Education and Political Action for the Chicago and Central States Joint Board of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW).

Ms. Tuteur’s papers include personal subject files and speeches, documenting her interests and involvement in a broad range of social and political issues.

Mary Heaton Vorse Papers

drice — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:37:50 -0500

Literary manuscripts and related papers, correspondence, daily notes and journals, reference and research material, notes, clippings, pamphlets, personal and family papers, and memorabilia, collected by Mrs. Vorse, writer, labor journalist, and social critic of the U.S. She also covered strikes, civil and labor disturbances, wars, revolutions, and political upheavals in other parts of the world. From the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts (1912) to the textile strike in Henderson, North Carolina (1959), her writings and activities include the International Women Suffrage Convention (1913); the IWW; child labor; Consumers League; the organization of the Provincetown Players (1915); mining strikes in Michigan and Minnesota (1916); the rise of Hitler; invasion of Poland; postwar conditions in Europe after both world wars; the Scottsboro case; the steel strikes of 1919 and 1936-37; organizational drive of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (1920-21); the Sacco-Vanzetti case (1920); Palmer raids and criminal syndicalist cases (1921-23); textile strikes in Passaie (1926) and Gastonia (1929); Farmers Holiday Association (1932); migrant workers; automobile sit-down strikes (1936-37); UNRRA (1945-47); the Sinarquistas in Mexico (1949); crime on the New York-New Jersey waterfronts (1950-54). Correspondents include John Dewey, John DosPassos, Dave Dubinsky, John Edelman, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, William 2. Foster, John F. Kennedy, John L. Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, Robert E. Peary, Walter Reuther, Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln Steffens, and many other prominent persons in the labor, literary, and political fields.

Subject Focus: Bernie Firestone

kchinery — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:36:21 -0400

Bernard “Bernie” J. Firestone was one of Detroit’s foremost social activists, a nationally recognized labor leader, and a champion of causes great and small. Influenced by everyday struggles, he was an advocate for anyone who faced oppression or injustice. read more »

(32348) Events, Firestone, Detroit Area Nuclear Weapons Freeze Committee, 1985

eclemens — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:57:07 -0400

Bernie Firestone speaks to members and supporters of the Detroit Area Nuclear Weapons Freeze Committee at their “Hiroshima-Nagasaki Anniversary Event.”

(32349) Labor Day, Parades, Firestone, Young, Detroit, 1989

eclemens — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:54:40 -0400

Bernie Firestone, Michigan State AFL-CIO President Frank Garrison and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young march in Detroit’s annual Labor Day Parade. Firestone was the parade’s Grand Marshall that year, as ACTWU celebrated 75 years of progress.

ACTWU Reports and Proceedings

kchinery — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:37:58 -0400

Processed

ACWA Reports and Proceedings

kchinery — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:36:09 -0400

Processed

Advance

kchinery — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 10:38:26 -0400

Processed. Bound volumes: 1917-1918, 1920-1976 (Vols. 1, 4-62).

Darbas

kchinery — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 10:46:28 -0400

Processed. Vols. 1-2, 9-11.

Fortschritt

kchinery — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 10:51:45 -0400

Processed. Vols. 1-3, 10.

Labor Unity

kchinery — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:22:36 -0400

Unprocessed

Publications, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America

kchinery — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 10:34:21 -0400

Unprocessed. Titles: Illustrated Almanac (1923-1924); Education Department Pamphlets (1922-1937); Education Department Publications (1933-1949); Joint Board of Locals Publications (1928-1962); Misc. publications.

Textile Labor

kchinery — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:24:42 -0400

Unprocessed