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Oral History of the American Left Collection

Call Number

OH.002

Date

1940-2011, inclusive

Creator

Tamiment Library

Extent

63.91 Linear Feet
in 21 record cartons, 39 card/cassette boxes, 22 manuscript boxes, 5 half manuscript boxes, 1 media box, and 8 other containers.

Language of Materials

Materials are in English, unless otherwise noted at the interview level.

Abstract

The Tamiment Library at New York University established the Oral History of the American Left in 1976 in order to collect and preserve the memories of veteran activists. These interviews describe seven decades of Left politics from the 1910s through the 1970s. They document the full spectrum of left politics in the twentieth century, including socialism, Communism, anarchism, Trotskyism, and the New Left. There are interviews with both leaders and rank-and-file activists.

Historical/Biographical Note

New York University's Tamiment Library established the Oral History of the American Left (OHAL) in 1976. The purpose of this project was to expand the archive's documentation of radicalism and labor by recording the memories of veteran activists before they were lost. The founders of OHAL were working within the milieu of "new social history" and were intent on using the Oral History of the American Left to collect stories from groups often underrepresented in traditional historical narratives including rank and file activists, women, and ethnic minorities. The project founders, by their own admission, were a part of a revival of interest in folkloric community histories and captivated by the ability of the recorded interview to bring these stories to life. They also were cognizant of the interviewer's role in shaping an oral history, and the interviewers' own activism is also frequently on display. As such, decades later, the early interviews of the collection not only give insight into the experiences of activists from the 1910s-1960s, but illuminate the psychology of the Left during the Reagan era.

Paul Buhle was the director of the project from its founding, and was its most prolific interviewer. Other staff included Roger Keeran who was co-director in the early years and Jon Bloom who joined the project in 1977 to work as an interviewer, coordinator, and fundraiser. Additional OHAL staff in the 1980s included interviewer and project coordinator Ruth F. Prago, interviewer Bea Lemisch, and indexer Ameila Green.

Interviewing began with a series of small grants provided by the Rabinowitz and Bronson Cutting Foundations. The New Jersey Historical Commission provided funding in 1978 to support interviews on radicalism in New Jersey between 1930 and 1960. Later, Ruth F. Prago developed the idea to start a radio series based on interviews held for the OHAL collection. Together with Pacifica Radio the project received a one-year grant from the New York State Council for the Humanities to conduct interviews with twenty-five women about radicalism during the 1930s. Radio producers used these interviews to create the radio series "Grandma was an Activist," first broadcast in 1983. OHAL received major funding in 1982–1983 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This support enabled Paul Buhle to build a comprehensive collection of oral histories regarding ethnic-immigrant radicalism, its press, and fraternal organizations. The NEH grant also enabled OHAL to collect hundreds of hours of interviews made by filmmakers on American anarchism, the Hollywood blacklist, the Communist Party, the Columbia University student strike of 1968, and other subjects.

From its founding, OHAL was intended to be a comprehensive document of the experiences of the members of the Left in the United States, and it was assumed that the collection would continue to grow over time. Tamiment Library continued to conduct interviews and collect interviews from third parties through the 1990s and into the early 2010s.

Arrangement

Collection is arranged into nine series: 1. Oral History of the American Left Main Series, 2. Fred Zimring Interviews, 3. Reynold Hills Project Interviews, 4. Filmmakers' Tapes and Transcripts, 5. Tamiment Institute Tapes, 6. Aleine Austin Tapes regarding Monthly Review and Highlander Folk School, 7. Restricted Interviews, 8. Higley Hill, 9. Rose Leopold

Scope and Content Note

The Oral History of the American Left documents the broad range of experiences on the left, with a focus on underrepresented voices, particularly between 1910 and 1980. The Main Series (Series 1) is particularly sweeping in the topics that it documents, but a set of prominent topics emerge representing the interests of OHAL staff members in the early years of the collection. These include immigrant/ethnic radicalism, labor, women's history, radical newspapers, fraternal organizations, and student radicalism. The earliest interviews were done to collect the memories of men and women who could recall the 1910s-1920s. Later interviews document the effects of the Russian Revolution on the Left in the United States, the formation of social and cultural institutions by the "New Immigrant" groups, the history of socialism and anarchism, the relationship between the "Old Left" and "New Left," and Communist activism in the United States. There is also an analysis of the regional development of Left movements in the United States. OHAL interviewed representative figures from the Jewish, Finnish, Slovenian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, African American, Japanese, Scandinavian, and Spanish Left. For many of these interviews, there is a focus on how ethnic identity and political identity interacted and how non-English-language presses and fraternal organizations preserved this identity in the United States. The cultural experiences of Yiddish-speaking Jews are particularly represented in this regard. Paul Buhle took a sizable amount of interviews related to the relationship between Yiddish-language literature and culture and Communist and socialist political organizations and newspapers.

The collection also documents the factionalism of the Left in the mid-20th century United States. Rank and file members and leaders alike comment on the conflicts between the Communist Party of the USA and different socialist and Trotskyist organizations, analyzing matters of theory and the personalities that drove the splits. The Johnson-Forest Tendency and CLR James receive particular attention. Other political parties/factions addressed include the the Socialist Party, Workers Party, Socialist Workers Party, and the American Labor Party. The CP's role in the period is examined in depth, both by members and opponents, especially during the 1930s. The interviews taken to support "Grandma Was an Activist" provide insight into the experiences of women activists during the period.

The collection includes several interviews with participants of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the US component of the International Brigades which fought in the Spanish Civil War. There are other interviews documenting the long tenure of Jasper McLevy, Socialist Party Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1933-1957. Organizations discussed in other interviews include the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Workmens' Circle, International Labor Defense, National Lawyers Guild, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, and the Yidisher Kultur Farband (YKUF), among many others. The labor movement and the operations of different political parties and factions within labor unions are also frequently addressed. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and the needle trades are particularly well represented in this regard.

OHAL also received interviews from filmmakers and graduate students that were added to the collection as distinct units. These materials, found in Series 2-9, are further described at the series level.

Subjects

People

Boggs, Grace Lee; Moore, Audley, 1898-1997; Baxandall, Rosalyn Fraad, 1939- -- Interviews; Sale, Kirkpatrick; Draper, Hal -- Interviews; Deak, Zoltan; Dunayevskaya, Raya -- Interviews; Darcy, Samuel, 1905-; Ferlinghetti, Lawrence; Goldberg, Itshe; Glaberman, Martin -- Interviews; Gitlin, Todd; Berrigan, Daniel; James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989 -- Interviews; Berry, Abner -- Interviews; Buhle, Paul, 1944-; Boggs, James -- Interviews; Epstein, Melech -- Interviews; Bloom, Jonathan; Prago, Ruth.; Lemisch, Bea; Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014; De Leon, Solon, 1883-; Patterson, Louise Thompson, 1901-1999; Rawick, George P., 1929-; Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989; Chernin, Rose -- Interviews; Kolehmainen, Mary -- Interviews; Johnson, Howard, 1915- -- Interviews; Breitman, George -- Interviews; Glotzer, Albert, 1908-1999. -- |v Interviews; Noṿiḳ, P., 1891-; Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989 -- Interviews; Harap, Louis -- Interviews; Gellert, Hugo, 1892-1985 -- Interviews; Foner, Moe, 1915- -- Interviews; Foner, Henry -- Interviews; Weir, Stan -- nterviews; Weiss, Myra Tanner -- Interviews; Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 -- Interviews; Rubinstein, Annette Teta, 1910-2007. -- Interviews; Le Sueur, Meridel -- Interviews; Rodney, Lester, 1911-2009 -- Interviews; O'Connor, Harvey, 1897-1987 -- Interviews; Nelson, Steve, 1903-1993 -- Interviews; McLevy, Jasper, 1878-1962 -- Interviews; McKinney, Ernest Rice, 1886-1984 -- Interviews; McGrath, Thomas, 1916-1990 -- Interviews; Magil, A. B. (Abraham Bernard), 1905-2003 -- Interviews; Kolehmainen, Mary

Conditions Governing Access

Unless otherwise noted, materials are open without restrictions. Any limitations on access, as stipulated in an interviewee's release form, are noted at the interview or series level.

Use Restrictions

Because of the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across the collection. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of individual items in the collection; these items are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation. Repository is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from this collection.

New York University holds any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) for the majority of the interviews in Series 1 of this collection. Unless otherwise noted, permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from the Tamiment Library. Interviews in Series 1 for which New York University does not hold rights are noted at the interview level. Any restrictions on use that the interviewer and interviewee agreed to in the interview's release form are also noted at the interview level.

Copyright ownership and use restrictions vary across Series 2-9. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu for more information.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; Oral History of the American Left; OH 002; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Location of Materials

Some materials are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use. Please request materials at least two business days prior to your research visit to coordinate access. Access compact disks and transcripts are stored onsite.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

From its inception, the Oral History of the American Left was an assembled collection with a diverse provenance. The majority of the interviews, particularly in Series I, were collected by the Oral History of American Left for deposit at the Tamiment Library. At the same time, OHAL solicited and accepted recordings from scholars, filmmakers, activists, and other likeminded individuals who were not affiliated with the project. OHAL staff actively took interviews between 1976-1985. The collection of interviews by OHAL and Tamiment Library continued through the late 2000s at a diminished pace. The collection also contains materials that were created or collected by the Tamiment Institute before the establishment of OHAL. The accession numbers associated with this collection are 1976.001, 2004.026, 2010.002, 2018.050, and 2018.072.

Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures

Access to audiovisual materials in this collection is available through digitized access copies. Researchers may view an item's original container, but the media themselves are not available for playback because of preservation concerns. Materials that have already been digitized are noted in the collection's finding aid and can be requested in our reading room.

Related Archival Materials

Guide to the Oral History of the American Left, edited by Paul Buhle and Jonathan Bloom, is cataloged with Tamiment Library's bibliographic collections and provides insight into the goals and considerations at OHAL's founding and a history of the collection up to 1984. The project's newsletter, filed with Tamiment Library's serials, similarly gives context for the creation and collection of OHAL's earliest materials.

Paul Buhle Papers (TAM 171)

Collection processed by

Paul Buhle, Jonathan Bloom, Michael Nash, unattributed Tamiment staff, and David A. Olson

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-09-05 13:58:45 -0400.
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Language: Description is in English.

Processing Information

The Oral History of the American Left has seen many waves of processing since its founding in 1976. The two primary access tools resulting from the first wave of processing were indexes and Jonathan Bloom and Paul Buhle's Guide to the Oral History of the American Left, published in 1984. Discovery tools were updated as new tapes were added to the collection. A wide range of appraisal guidelines, arrangement strategies, and numbering schemes were deployed by the archivists working on the collection over the decades. At times, this created inconsistencies in collection management and description.

Digitization began in the late 2000s, employing outside vendors and NewYork University's Preservation Department. Transcription had occurred since the 1980s, and another batch of interviews was transcribed and edited in the early 2010s.

In 2012, efforts to complete the digitization were resumed in earnest, and digitization of Series I was completed in 2015. This push was supported by three grants from the Korein Foundation, and sustained use of New York University's in-house transfer capabilities for the transfer of OHAL materials.

In conjunction with the digitization, a serious effort was undertaken to consolidate physical control over Series I. Different generations of cassettes were stored in different locations throughout the library, and a major effort was undertaken to reconcile these materials and confirm that the library was digitizing the most complete versions of interviews. At the same time, a new online finding aid was written, consolidating legacy description from multiple sources, updating it to conform to modern archival standards, and creating new content. This was completed in 2015.

Less visibly, a major effort was undertaken to standardize the diverse naming conventions for digital surrogates from in the first wave of digitization projects. Files in the library's digital preservation repository we mapped and batch renamed for better control over digital assets. This too was completed in 2015.

In 2020, narrative description of the Karl Yoneda interview was edited to more accurately describe the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Researchers can access previous versions of the finding aid in our GitHub repository at https://github.com/NYULibraries/findingaids_eads/commits/master/tamwag/oh_002.xml.

In 2023, audiocassette materials were removed from storage cabinets in the ACM space and housed in 15 cassette boxes as new top containers. Instances were either added to existing titles or titles and corresponding instances were created under the respective series.

In October 2023, a student worker edited top container numbers and added instances for one box of audiocassettes.

Revisions to this Guide

December 2020: Edited by Amy C. Vo to change legacy description about the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II
August 2021 - September 2024: Updated by Rachel Mahre, Maddie DeLaere, and Olivija Liepa to state that audio materials have been digitized and are accessible to patrons.
November 2021: Edited by Anna Björnsson McCormick to correctly identify Grace Lee Boggs as an activist in the Black Power movement
January 2023: Edited by Maddie DeLaere to update titles and top containers for select audiocassettes.
June 2023: Edited by Olivija Liepa to update top containers and dates for select audiocassettes.
October 2023: Edited by Maddie DeLaere to update titles and add additional top containers for select audiocassettes.

Edition of this Guide

This version was derived from OHALforw.doc

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Oral History of the American Left Main Series, 1940-2011, inclusive

Minka Alesh, Oct 26, 1982, inclusive

Box: 11, CD: Alesh 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the SNPJ (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota), a Slovenian mutual aid society. Alesh discusses the organisation's membership, the politics of Slovenian immigrants, and the activities of the women's lodge, of which she was president. Alesh also discusses her involvement in the millinery workers' union in Chicago, her role on the union's executive board, union organizing, and strikes. The interview also includes discussion of life in Slovenia and immigration, the Slovenian community in Chicago, the Socialist Party, Eugene Debs, and financial support for Tito and Yugoslavian relief during World War II. Interview focuses most heavily on the period between the 1900s-1920s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 41 minutes

Audio

Minka Alesh

Jose Alvarez, Mar 15, 1983, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 11, CD: Alvarez 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 2 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of origins of Spanish-language Communist movement in Ybor City, Florida during the 1920s-1930s; community support of Communists and relation to surrounding communities during the 1930s-1940s; immigration from Spain, work in tobacco factories, and activities of unions during the 1920s-1940s; and Red Scare decimation of Ybor City Left during the 1950s. Also discussed is a meeting with Fidel Castro in the 1950s, before Cuban Revolution. Joseph Norrick was present for interview with Alvarez, and second cassette of interview also contains a segment of a different interview with Joseph and Ruth Norrick.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duartion: 87 minutes in two parts

Audio

Jose Alvarez

Freda Hogan Ameringer, undated

Box: 11, CD: Ameringer 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 81, Cassette: 362 A (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Phone interview taken to support review essay of Ameringer's book that Green intended to submit to The Nation. Interview includes discussion of Ameringer's background and left-wing newspapers including the Oklahoma Leader and American Guardian.

Interview by James Green.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 84 minutes

Audio

Freda Hogan Ameringer

Freda Hogan Ameringer, Dec 11, 1977, inclusive

Box: 81, Cassette: 362 B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 11, CD: Ameringer 3-4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Tapes begin with a narrative about Ameringer's life, the Oklahoma Leader and other newspapers, activism among miners, her socialist family, and the early socialist movement, followed by an interview.

Interview by James Green.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 79 minutes

Audio

Freda Hogan Ameringer

Freda Hogan Ameringer, Jul 24, 1981, inclusive

Box: 11, CD: Ameringer 5-7 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 81, Cassette: 362 C-D (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Jim Green.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 146 minutes in two parts; Preservation note: second part has channel shifting, drop-outs, and significant volume fluctuation

Audio

Freda Hogan Ameringer

Vicky Amter, Feb 19, 1978, inclusive

Box: 1, Cassette: 3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 11, CD: Amter 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the Communist Party on the Lower East Side of New York City during the 1940s-1960s, conflicts with her Socialist father, experiences as Local 65 shop steward, the Jefferson School, harassment and isolation of CP in the 1950s, and reactions to emergence of the New Left.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 80 minutes

Audio

Vicky Amter

Herbert Aptheker, 1976, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Conversation includes discussion of college radicalism in 1930s, his MA thesis on Nat Turner, joining the Communist Party, academic life, and the Jefferson School.

Interview by Debby Cohen.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Harry Aronek, Oct 25, 1978, inclusive

Box: 11, CD: Aronek 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 4 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English and Yiddish.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the topics of immigration and the political and cultural activities of the New York Jewish community during the 1930s-1950s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 46 minutes in two parts

Audio

Harry Aronek

Sam Ashare, Mar 30, 1983, inclusive

Box: 11, CD: Ashare 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 5 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 56 minutes

Audio

Sam Ashare

Jacob Aspiz, Apr 7, 1980, inclusive

Box: 11, CD: Aspitz 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 6 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English and Yiddish

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the Los Angeles Jewish Left since the 1930s, the rise of anti-Nazi "front" across Jewish community and Communists' participation in it, the isolation of Jewish Left during Cold War, Aspiz's literary interests, and his involvement in the Yiddishe Kultur Farband as a senior citizen.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 93 minutes in two parts; Preservation note: for part two, Side 2: The first 20 minutes is at a significantly lower volume

Audio

Jacob Aspiz

Ben Axelrod, Oct 4, 1979, inclusive

Box: 11, CD: CD Axelrod 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 391 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Ben Axelrod

Stanley Banach, March 23, Apr 11, 1984, inclusive

Box: 1, Cassette: 7 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 11, CD: Banach 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Conversation includes discussion of neighborhood background in Providence during the 1950s, army life in Vietnam and Germany, radical influences, and his political philosophy and aspirations. The interview also covers union activity at Electric Boat/Quonset Point, Rhode Island, organizing drives, and union activity at Brown & Sharpe before and during the 1982 strike.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 85 minutes in two parts

Audio

Stanley Banach

Eugene Barnett, 1940 - 1946, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the topics of the Industrial Workers of the World in the Northwest of the United States during the 1910s, West Virginia coal miners at turn of century, becoming a unionist, lumber work in Northwest, and repression in Centralia, Washington.

Transcription of a radio broadcast from circa 1940.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Walter Barry, Oct 21, 1980 - Dec 4, 1980, inclusive

Box: 11, CD: Barry 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 9 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Barry's boyhood and first labor experience in Endicott, New York, the Trade Union Unity League and United Electrical Workers District 4, and the Westinghouse elevator plant in Jersey City, New Jersey during the 1930s-1950s.

Interview by Ruth F. Prago.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 137 minutes in three parts

Audio

Walter Barry

Irving Barshop, Oct 12, 1973, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 334 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 11, CD: Barshop 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Irving Barshop

Rosalyn Baxandall, Nov 8, 1983, inclusive

Box: 11, CD: Baxandall 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 10 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes a discussion of the differences between Baxandall's expectations and the realities of left wing culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1958 through the 1960s, after coming from New York Old Left background and having a brief stint at Smith College. Also discussed are gender relations in the left and academy; the relationship between music, poetry, theatre, and beat culture and politics in Madison; and the importance of the Rathskeller bar in academic and radical life. Baxandall also discusses her studies in French and history, academic role models, challenging cultural norms, the beginnings of the women's movement in Madison, and the impact of her time at Madison on the rest of her life.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The release form that Tamiment Library has for this interview does not include transfer of copyright. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from the narrator, Rosalyn Baxandall. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting this individual.

Audio

Rosalyn Baxandall

Bertha Bazell, Mar 10, 1981, inclusive

Box: 11, CD: Bazell 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 11 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Bazell's immigrant Jewish background, the Workmen's Circle, involvement in the Communist Party during the 1930s-1950s in Coney Island, New York and later in Fall River, Massachusetts. It also addresses harassment of left wingers by the FBI during the the 1950s.

Interview by Bill Schecter.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 52 minutes

Audio

Betha Bazell

Irving Beinin, Jul 2, 1988, inclusive

Box: 11, CD: Beinin 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 292 (Material Type: Audio)

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Irving Beinin

Ray and Rose Bell, Aug 2, 1985, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 11, CD: Bell 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 415 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Topics discussed include working class life and union organizing in textile mills.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Ray and Rose Bell

Fay Bennett, May 26, 1983, inclusive

Box: 1, Cassette: 12 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 11, CD: Bennett 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the college anti-war movement during the 1930s, the American Student Union, Keep America Out of War Congress during the late 1930s, the experience of conscientious objectors during World War II, and postwar work with National Sharecroppers' Fund.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 66 minutes in two parts

Audio

Fay Bennett

Jack Bergen, 1967, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Bridgeport, Connecticut during the 1910s, life during the Great Depression, Bridgeport mayor Jasper McLevy, and the Socialist Party in Connecticut state politics during the 1930s.

Interview by Bruce Stave.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

John T. Bernard, Jun 25, 1977, inclusive

Box: 11, CD: Bernard 1-5 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 14 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a Mesaba Park Cooperative Association tribute to John Bernard, a Farmer-Labor Party representative from Minnesota's Eighth Congressional District, who served from 1936-1938. It includes speeches by former Minnesota Governor Elmer Benson and others about Bernard's record in Congress, a response from Bernard, and music.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 158 minutes in three parts

Audio

John T. Bernard

Daniel Berrigan, Apr 1, 1970, inclusive

Box: 1, Cassette: 15 A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 11, CD: Berrigan 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

This recording was Berrigan's last interview before he went underground and then to prison. It includes reflections on his activities during the 1960s, including the Catonsville incident.

Interview by Marc Weiss.

Use Restrictions

The release form that Tamiment Library has for this interview does not include transfer of copyright. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from the narrator, Daniel Berrigan. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting this individual.

Audio

Daniel Berrigan

Abner Berry, 1974-1977, inclusive

Box: 12, CD: Berry 1-6 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 16 A-F (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview describes the Communist Party in Harlem during the 1930s, including his involvement in Communist Party apparatus, personalities in the CP, relationships with other activist groups, and the CP's intellectual climate during the Great Depression.

Berry analyzes at length the relationship between Party policies on race and African American identity. This includes the initial appeal of the Communist Party for African Americans and the organizational implications of the CP policy of black and white unity. He also looks at how this policy fit into larger questions of African American national identity at time, including the CP's relationship with Garvey movement. He also speaks about the study of American history by African American CP leadership and the prevalent desire for assimilation. He also looks at the CP's broader policy towards a mass movement with an American identity, and he analyzes how Franklin Delano Roosevelt's policies and CP policies worked together during the Depression.

Berry also shares his memories of Party administrators and figures in Harlem. These include Richard Moore, James Ford, Cyril Briggs, Arnold Johnson, Merrill Work, Charles White, and Manning Johnson, who later testified before HUAC. He also shares his recollections of the 1935 Harlem riot and subsequent hearings and Robert Minor's involvement in hearings.

Also included is an analysis of Richard Wright's work and commentary on the Party, including discussion of Native Son and The Outsider. Berry describes of meetings with Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Theodore Ward, in which they discussed literature, especially the use of symbols. He also describes the CP's attempts to control cultural criticism, and comments on Socialist realism and its divorce from reality. Berry also discusses the Party's acceptance of jazz and folk music, and speaks of the theoretical implications of improvisation in jazz music.

Berry also discusses the activities of the CP and its interactions with other organizations. This includes his activities and politics in Politburo in the late 1930s; analysis of the trade union caucuses, including Mike Quill and the TWU; the reactions to the Nazi-Soviet Pact; the foundation of the National Negro Congress; experiences working with Garvey movement; and the work of the Ethiopian Defense Committee in Harlem. Berry also describes the Party's working relationships with ministers, including Adam Clayton Powell (Baptist), Johnny Johnson (Episcopalian), Father Phillips (Episcopalian), William Lloyd Imes (Presbyterian), and Father Divine.

Other topics addressed include the CP education programs for members in Harlem, the high turnover among CP members, differences in debate of African-American self-determination in North and South of United States, the activities of the Workers' Alliance at the Home Relief Bureaus, Unemployed Councils, and interracial marriage in the Party.

Interview by Mark Naison.

Audio

Abner Berry

Steve Beumer, Mar 11, 1975, inclusive

Box: 12, CD: Beumer 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 17 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Beumer's family background in Indiana, his political activities there and in Detroit during the late 1960s-1970s, the Socialist Workers Party, and his experiences as bus driver and union activist in Detroit.

Interview by Claudia Hommel.

Use Restrictions

Release form assigns wide range of rights regarding use to Wayne State University. Please contact Tamiment Library or Wayne State University for more information.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 219 minutes in three parts

Audio

Steve Beumer

Martin Birnbaum, Nov 6, 1977, inclusive

Box: 12, CD: Birnbaum 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 18 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, CD: Birnbaum 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the life and activities of a Yiddish "proletarian poet" including his childhood, immigration and literary work for New Yorker Volkszeitung during the 1920s, his friendship with writer Moshe Nadir, the role of the Left in the Yiddish literary community, the Proletpen circle of writers, Birnbaum's disillusionment with Communism and poetic realism, and his return to unrestrained lyricism.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 96 minutes in two parts

Audio

Martin Birnbaum

Martin Birnbaum, Feb 5, 1978, inclusive

Box: 1, Cassette: 18 C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 12, CD: Birnbaum 3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, CD: Birnbaum 3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 58 minutes

Audio

Martin Birnbaum

Martin Birnbaum, Feb 16, 1983, inclusive

Box: 12, CD: Birnbaum 4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 19 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, CD: Birnbaum 4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the meaning of the "sense of humor" in Yiddish literary work and Birnbaum's own sense of humor contrasted with that of writer Moshe Nadir and Jewish popular culture.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 17 minutes

Audio

Martin Birbaum

Violet Wainio Bjong, Jul 7, 1984, inclusive

Box: 12, CD: Bjong 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 265 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of Wainio Bjong's father and mother, Finnish-American radical leaders during the 1920s-1930s, her activities in Fitchburg, Massachusetts during the 1930s, work on a Left-oriented daily in Fitchburg, life in Brooklyn cooperative housing, and reflections.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 65 minutes

Audio

Violet Wainio Bjong

Fred Blair, Jul 26, 1983, inclusive

Box: 1, Cassette: 20 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 12, CD: Blair 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the role of ethnicity in Communist Party of Wisconsin during the 1930s-1940s; support of the Left from the Polish sector dating back to 1880 and support of other Slav groups from 1910s; role of Meta Berger in Wisconsin Party and Blair's ascendency to state leadership; unemployment demonstration in Milwaukee and influence on students in University of Wisconsin-Madison; increase of District membership with addition of northern Wisconsin; character of northern Wisconsin rural Communists; exodus of rural Communists from state during the 1940s-1950s, and the impact of McCarthyism on the decline of Communist Party support.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Fred Blair

Norman Bloomfield, May 7, 1983, inclusive

Box: 12, CD: Bloomfield 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 21 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview topics include the Young People's Socialist League during the 1930s; Trotskyism; the University of California, Berkeley campus; and work in shipyards.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 17 minutes

Audio

Norman Bloomfield

Grace Lee Boggs, Mar 28, 1983, inclusive

Box: 1, Cassette: 22-22 A (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 12, CD: G. Boggs 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

The interview includes a discussion of Boggs' Asian-American family background in Providence, Rhode Island; her education and involvement in radical politics in New York during the late 1930s; the Workers Party and Johnson-Forest tendency during the 1940s; Correspondence in Detroit during the 1950s; involvement in the Black Power movement with her husband, James Boggs; and comments on C.L.R. James.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Audio

Grace Lee Boggs

Grace Lee Boggs, Aug 6, 1986, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 420 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 12, CD: G. Boggs 3-4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Topics discussed include entry into radical politics, the Johnson-Forest Tendency, and the relationship of culture and the Left.

Interview by Ellen Kellman.

Audio

Grace Lee Boggs

James Boggs, Mar 29, 1983, inclusive

Box: 1, Cassette: 22 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 12, CD: J. Boggs 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 177 C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Boggs' youth in the South, factory life in Detroit during the 1930s-1940s, the Johnson-Forest Tendency, and activities in 1960s-1970s.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Audio

James Boggs

James Boggs, Aug 6, 1986, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 421 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 12, CD: J. Boggs 2-3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding Boggs' involvement in the Johnson-Forest Tendency.

Interview by Ellen Kellman.

Audio

James Boggs

Paul Booth, Oct 1969, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 422 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 12, CD: Booth 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview discusses Students for a Democratic Society, its internal politics, relationships with other student groups, and demonstrations.

Interview by Kirkpatrick Sale.

Audio

Paul Booth

Frank Bohn, Mar 1, 1958, inclusive

Box: 12, CD: Bohn 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 24 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes Bohn's memories of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Thomas Hagerty, the Catholic church, and the Socialist Labor Party.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Frank Bohn

Fannie Borun, Jan 6, 1981

Box: 1, Cassette: 25 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 12, CD: Borun 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Political struggles within the International Ladies Garment Workers Union during the 1920s, experiences on trips in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, and women's role in the Communist Party.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 63 minutes

Audio

Fannie Borun

Judy Boudon, Feb 7-8, 1982, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 12, CD: Boudon 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 26 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of Boudon's immigration from Panama, the Spanish-language immigrant community in New York during the 1930s, her work in offices and factories, the America Labor Party, the Communist Party, and women's role in the CP.

Interview by Ruth F. Prago.

Audio

Judy Boudon

Thomas Brandon, Nov 4, 1976, inclusive

Box: 1, Cassette: 27 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 27 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 12, CD: Brandon 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the Workers' Newsreel and Film and Photo League during the early 1930s.

Interview by Russell Campbell.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights to publicity and privacy) to materials in this collection were transferred to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Complete versions of this interview may not be published or copied without the written permission of Thomas Brandon or his estate.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 85 minutes; Preservation note: Muffled sound/low volume

Audio

Thomas Brandon

Miriam Braverman, Nov 8, 1984, inclusive

Box: 81, Cassette: 364 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 12, CD: Braverman 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Miriam Braverman

Jeremy Brecher, Mar 31, 1970, inclusive

Box: 12, CD: Brecker 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 28 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Brecher discusses the activities of the Students for a Democratic Society between 1962 and 1965.

Interview by Kirkpatrick Sale.

Use Restrictions

Any rights (including copyright and related rights of publicity and privacy) were transferred to New York University in 1980. Use of these materials is subject to the approval of Jeremy Brecher during his lifetime.

Audio

Jeremy Brecher

George Breitman, Jan 4, 1979, inclusive

Box: 12, CD: Breitman 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 29 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of unemployed organizations in New Jersey and the Socialist Workers Party between 1938 and 1954.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Audio

George Breitman

Harry Brier, Aug 26, 1983, inclusive

Box: 1, Cassette: 30 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 12, CD: Brier 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Brier discusses life in the East End of London during the 1920s-1930s, the Jewish character of Communism, anti-fascist activities in London during the 1920-1930s, his immigration to Los Angeles, and union activities, from the 1940s to the time of the interview.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Harry Brier

Theodore Brise, Apr 18, 1980, inclusive

Box: 13, CD: Brise 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 31 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains discussion of anarchism and Arbeter Ring in Los Angeles, Yiddish anarchist activists, and the Rudolf Rocker Circle.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 45 minutes

Audio

Theodore Brise

Brookwood Labor College, Oct 10, 1982, inclusive

Box: 13, CD: Brookwood 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Cassette: 32 A-D (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a slide show on the history of Brookwood Labor College and Workers' Education Local 189, with comments by former Brookwood staff and students.

Narrated by Jon Bloom.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Brookwood Labor College

Niki Brorsen, May 20, 1975, inclusive

Box: 1, Cassette: 33 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 13, CD: Brorsen 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains discussion of Brorsen's family background and growing up in San Francisco and Chicago during the 1950s-1960s, the anti-war work, and Brorsen's decision to join the Young Socialist Alliance during the late 1960s. It also addresses her work as a waitress and activities in restaurant union during the 1970s.

Interview by Claudia Hommel.

Use Restrictions

Release form assigns wide range of rights regarding use to Wayne State University. Please contact Tamiment Library or Wayne State University for more information.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 119 minutes in two parts

Audio

Niki Brorsen

Peter Buch, Aug 24, 1976, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Buch's immigration from Turkey and youth in Los Angeles, brief involvement in Socialist Zionism during the early 1950s, the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialist Alliance in Los Angeles and nationally during the 1950s-1960s, the Robert Williams case, responses to Cuban Revolution, and the Vietnam War.

Interview by Douglas Cooper.

Heinz Buergers, Apr 26, 1980, inclusive

Box: 13, CD: Buergers 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 39 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Beth Haskell.

Audio

Heinz Buergers

David Burbank, Oct 6, 1984, inclusive

Box: 1, Cassette: 35 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 13, CD: Burbank 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains discussion of Saint Louis radicalism during the 1930s, the Socialist Party, the American Workers Party, the Trotskyist movement, and the Workers Party. Also discussed is CLR James in Missouri and unionization of gas workers.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 63 minutes

Audio

David Burbank

Ann Burlak Timpson, Dec 18, 1980, inclusive

Box: 13, Cassette: Burlak-Timpson 1-5 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 35.1 A-E (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Burlak Timpson's labor activities in Rhode Island and Communist activities during the 1930s-1940s.

Interview by Bill Schecter.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 257 minutes in five parts

Audio

Ann Burlak Timpson

Ann Burlak Timpson, 1977, inclusive

Box: 13, CD: Burlak-Timpson 6 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 36 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

This talk covers labor activities in Rhode Island during the early 1930s and her role as a Communist speaker, and organizer in Providence and Pawtucket.

Public address, Rhode Island Labor History Forum.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by creators. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holders. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 20 minutes; Preservation note: Audio quality is very poor.

Audio

Ann Burlak Timpson

C., Pete, undated

Box: 13 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 10, Cassette: 427 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

This interview with a Detroit-based socialist, includes a description of his background, the appeal of socialism, and his involvement with the Teamsters.

Interview by Sam Friedman.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by creators. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holders. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

C., Pete

James P. Cannon, undated

Box: 13, CD: Cannon 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 413 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of speech titled "What Socialist America Will Look Like."

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by creators. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holders. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

James P. Cannon

Fanny and Herman Cantor, Jan 11, 1979, inclusive

Box: 13, CD: Cantor 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 37 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers immigration to US from Russia and development of social consciousness, growing up in Hell's Kitchen in New York, radicalism and cooperativism during the 1920s-1930s, and reflections on younger radicals and current events at the time of the interview.

Interview by Milton Cantor.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 63 minutes

Audio

Fanny and Herman Cantor

Philip Caplowitz, Nov 15, 1980, inclusive

Box: 13, Cassette: Caplowitz 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 38 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Caplowitz's immigration, the activities of Jewish Communists in unions during the 1920s-1930s, and Yiddish culture and the Yiddishe Kultur Farband during the 1930s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 77 minutes in two parts

Audio

Philip Caplowitz

Wendell Carroll, Nov 30, 1983, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 39 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 13, CD: Carroll 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of American Youth for Democracy during the late 1940s, the Independent Socialist League during the early 1950s, ISL positions on the Korean War, the Rosenberg case, the Communist Party and McCarthyism, and race and civil rights.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 104 minutes in two parts

Audio

Wendell Carroll

Pincus Caruso, Mar 16, 1983, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Cassette: 40 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 13, CD: Caruso 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the origins of Labor (Paole) Zionism in Eastern Europe and Caruso's role in the early 20th century; the formation and publication Yiddishe Kempfer in New York; the growth of Poale Zionism during the World War I era and brief publication of daily Zionist newspaper; growth of Zionism in the 1930s-1940s and support of Israel; and reflections on the failure of Zionists regarding Arabs in Israel and the conservative Israeli leadership.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 88 minutes in two parts

Audio

Pincus Caruso

Catholic Worker Conference, May 2, 1983, inclusive

Box: 13, CD: Catholic Worker Conference 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 41 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Program held at Trinity College in Worcester, Massachusetts to honor Dorothy Day and founding of the Catholic Worker. Includes panel comments by John Cort and others regarding Day and the Catholic Worker.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator fo the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Catholic Worker Conference

Reverend Don Chase, Nov 5, 1983, inclusive

Box: 13, CD: Chase 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 44 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents activities against the United States' intervention in Nicaragua in 1928, Christian Socialism in a San Francisco parish during the 1930s-50s, and Chase's interpretation of the Liberation Theology of the 1970s-80s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Reverend Don Chase

Bernard Chazanow, April 26, 1977, inclusive

Box: 13, CD: Chazanow 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 42 (Material Type: Audio)

Language of Materials

Materials are in Yiddish and English.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Chazanow's role as a political activist in Russia from 1898-1909 and the activities of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) from 1909-1928.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 54 minutes

Audio

Bernard Chazanow

Bernard Chazanow, May 31, 1978, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 13, Cassette: Chazanow 2-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 43 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

This recording contains an interview to supplement Chazanow's 1956 Yiddish autobiography, Days and Years.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator fo the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Preservation Note: Incubation was attempted on these audiocassettes, however they could not be digitized due to their condition.

Rose Chernin, Oct 25, 1983, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Cassette: 45 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, CD: Chernin 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the origins and activities of the Los Angeles branch of the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born during the 1940s-1950s, Chernin's family life, and her relationship with her daughter.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Rose Chernin

Harold Christoffel, Jun 27, 1974, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the early union background of former president of United Auto Workers Local 248 Allis Chalmers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the 1930s.

Interview by Roger Keeran.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Helen Ciminelli, Joe Richter, and Ann David, Oct 26, 1982, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 47 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 13, CD: Ciminelli, Richter, David 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of SNPJ (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota), a Slovenian mutual aid society, in Fontana, California, during the 1930s-1980s and the SNPJ role in Henry Wallace presidential campaign.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Alice Citron, Jan 6, 1981, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 48 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 13, CD: Citron 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Citron's career as a teacher in Harlem during the 1930s-1940s, her involvement in the Teachers' Union, her dismissal during the McCarthy era, and struggle for reinstatement.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Audio

Alice Citron

City College of New York Memorial, Apr 13, 1980, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 46 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 13, CD: City College 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a dedication of a memorial for thirteen CCNY alumni members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade killed in action in the Spanish Civil War. Includes speeches from ALB vets and historians, a recording of a speech by Ernest Hemingway, and musical performances. Speakers include Robert Colodny, Philip Foner, Joseph P. Lash,

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

City College of New York Memorial

Egidio Clemente, May 11, 1981, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 50 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 13, CD: Clemente 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Clemente discusses his role as editor of La Parola and secretary of Italian Socialist Federation in the 1930s, Italian left factions in Chicago and other cities, and the left wing Italian presses.

Interview by Eugene Miller.

Audio

Egidio Clemente

Lucy Ann Cloud, Aug 25, 1972, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the Industrial Workers of the World and Centralia, Washington case of 1919, with particular reference to IWW attorney Elmer Smith.

Interview by Tom Copeland.

Use Restrictions

Release form releases rights regarding use to the Minnesota Historical Society. Please contact Tamiment Library or the Minnesota Historical Society for more information.

Charles Coe, Dec 5, 1991 - Jan 9, 1992, inclusive

Box: 14, CD: Coe 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 315 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Emily Raphael.

Audio

Charles Coe

Nat Cohen, Nov 5, 1977, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 392 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 14, CD: N. Cohen 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Discussion of disconnect between Communist Party leadership and working class society. Analysis includes discussion of relationship between leadership and rank and file members; the Party's inability to speak to the broader society's cultural interests; sports; the missed opportunity to engage with Communist movements in communities outside of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles; and the relationship between art and the Party line.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Nat Cohen

Rose Cohen, Apr 12, 1976, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Recollections of studies at the Jefferson School of Social Science.

Interview by Debby Cohen.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Joseph Cohen, Ruth Cohen, and Frieda Koren, Jun 9, 1983, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 51 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 14, CD: Cohen and Koren 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding "Carlo" (Jesse Cohen), a cartoonist of the Workers Party during the 1940s.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrators and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrators and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 19 minutes

Audio

Joseph Cohen, Ruth Cohen, and Frieda Koren

Julia Conroy, May 14, 1980, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 53 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 14, CD: Conroy 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Theresa Diamond.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 39 minutes

Audio

Julia Conroy

Olga Corey, Jan 18, 1983, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 54 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 14, CD: Corey 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Olga Corey, the daughter of Louis Fraina (Lewis Corey), discusses her reaction to the movie Reds, reminiscences of father at Antioch College during the 1940s, and her own union activities.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 42 minutes

Audio

Olga Corey

Carlos Cortez, Jul 25, 1983, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Cassette: 55 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 14, CD: Cortez 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Cortez discusses being the son of a Mexican-American activist who joined Industrial Workers of the World after San Diego Free Speech Fight, his father's life in Milwaukee during the 1920s, and his mother, a German-American Socialist and poet. Cortez also discusses his imprisonment during World War II as conscientious objector, the role of the IWW in Chicago Mexican-American community during the 1940s, his role as artist and speaker for IWW in the 1940s-1980s, and anarchism and the IWW.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 71 minutes

Audio

Carlos Cortez

Carl Cowl, Mar 13, 1983, inclusive

Box: 14, CD: Cowl 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 57 (Material Type: Audio)

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 96 minutes

Audio

Carl Cowl

Malcolm Cowley, Jan 19, 1981, inclusive

Box: 14, CD: Cowley 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 56 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the Left during the Great Depression, the League of Professional Groups, "Culture and the Crisis" in 1932, the proletarian novel, John Reed Clubs, the Communist Party's Popular Front strategy, the Spanish Civil War, and reflections.

Interview by Richard Wormser.

Use Restrictions

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Audio

Malcolm Cowley

Roy Curtis, Nov 4, 1984, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 308A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 14, CD: Curtis 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview with Roy Curtis of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 4.

Interview by Paul Richiuso.

Audio

Roy Curtis

Joseph Cvetas, Oct 22, 1982, inclusive

Box: 14, CD: Cvetas 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 58 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Cvetas discusses his family's background with the Slovenian fraternal society SNPJ (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota), participating in the fraternal society's activities as child, and fraternalism in 1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 63 minutes

Audio

Joseph Cvetas

Sam Darcy, 1981, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 59 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 14, CD: Darcy 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes a discussion of Darcy's immigrant background, Communist activities during the 1920s, factionalism, Browderism, his departure from the CP, subsequent activities, and reflections.

Interview by Richard Wormser.

Audio

Sam Darcy

Sam Darcy, Nov 3, 1994, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 342 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 14, CD: Darcy 4-5 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of presentation by Sam Darcy at State University of New York at Albany for the course History 3162.

Existence and Location of Originals

The original copies of these recordings are held by the University at Albany (SUNY).

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Sam Darcy

Sam Darcy, Nov 4, 1994, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 343 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 14, CD: Darcy 6-8 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of presentation by Sam Darcy at the Campus Center Assembly Hall at State University of New York at Albany.

Existence and Location of Originals

The original copies of these recordings are held by the University at Albany (SUNY).

Use Restrictions

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Audio

Sam Darcy

Saul Davidson, Mar 16, 1983, inclusive

Box: 14, CD: Davidson 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 60 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Davidson discusses a "United Front" of organizations for preservation of Yiddish language in Miami Beach, his activism in left causes and the preservation of Yiddish, and reflections on survival of the Yiddish language.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 45 minutes

Audio

Saul Davidson

Sam Davis, Nov 15, 1980, inclusive

Box: 14, CD: Davis 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 61 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Topics discussed include the role of Jewish Left in New Haven, Connecticut since the 1920s, the nature of the Jewish community, the split of Socialists and Communists in the 1920s, the Yiddishe Kultur Farband choir, separation of Morgen Freiheit from the Communist Party, and cultural activities in the YKUF/Jewish Currents circle.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 16 minutes; Preservation Note: Due to its condition, one of the audiocassettes could not be digitized.

Audio

Sam Davis

Zoltan Deak, Feb 17, 1983, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 14, CD: Deak 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 62 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the aesthetics of Hungarian-American radical press, including the publications Uj Elore and Hungarian Word from the 1920s-1980s. Interview also includes story of Deak's immigration and his interest in progressive press. Other topics include the circulation and internal structure of Uj Elore, and the shrinking of a distinct Hungarian-American milieu.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Zoltan Deak

Jeannette Dean, Apr 14, 1979, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 63 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 14, CD: Dean 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Dean discusses her family background, union activities, radicalism in unions, and the UE in Newark.

Interview by Ruth F. Prago.

Audio

Jeannette Dean

Solon De Leon, Dec 16, 1972, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 65 A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 14, CD: De Leon 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the Socialist Party and reformism between 1900-1920, Solon's break with Daniel DeLeon, the International Workers of the World (IWW), the Industrial Union League, and the Socialist Labor Party since the 1930s.

Interview by Malcolm Kaufman & Jeff Sklar.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 178 minutes in three parts; Preservation note: Audio quality very poor

Audio

Solon De Leon

Albina Delfino, Jan 8, 1981, inclusive

Box: 14, CD: Delfino 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Cassette: 66 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Italian-American women and the Communist Party, the Needle Trades Industrial Union, the National Textile Workers Union, and her experiences as a CP organizer in Lawrence, Providence, Boston, and Corona, New York during the 1930s-1940s.

Interview with Ruth Prago.

Use Restrictions

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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 117 in two parts

Audio

Albina Delfino

Eugene Dennis Sentence Statement, undated

Box: 14, CD: Dennis 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 329 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Statement includes introduction by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Eugene Dennis Sentence Statement

Esther Dolgoff, Jan 27, 1982, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 67 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 23/24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 14, CD: Dolgoff 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Dolgoff discusses anarchist women of the 1930s and the character of anarchism. Transcription is incomplete.

Interview by Bea Limisch.

Audio

Esther Dolgoff

James Dolson, 1979, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 64 A-E (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 15, CD: Dolson 1-5 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

A series of lectures by Dolson on life and involvement with Communist Party. First two disks are a lecture including Dolson's gravitation to Communism, the Red Scare of the 1920s, Dolson's trial for political beliefs in California, and a question and answer session about Dolson's life and political situation at the time of lecture. Remainder of disks are an interview with Paul Buhle in Providence, Rhode Island. Interview includes Dolson's joining of the Socialist Party in 1907, socialist journals, socialism in Chicago, the trial in California, formation of Communist Labor Party, activism in Pittsburgh in 1930s, the Dies Committee, the state of Israel and the left, and other topics.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

James Dolson

Bill Dongas, Apr 3, 1983, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 68 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 15, CD: Dongas 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Dongas describes his experience as a Greek partisan in World War II, immigration struggles during the 1950s, Greek publications, and Radio-Chicago.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 77 minutes

Audio

Bill Dongas

Dora, Mar 25, 1982, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 69 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 15, CD: Dora 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

The interviewee, going only by her first name, discusses student radicalism during the 1930s, activities of the Communist Party, the United Electrical Workers, and social life and friends.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Audio

Dora

Pauline Dougherty, Jan, 1982, inclusive

Box: 15, CD: Dougherty 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 70 A-D (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Dougherty discusses her background in a shoe-producing town, college politics during the Depression, white collar union activity, the McCarthy Era, and reflections.

Interview by Sy Singer.

Use Restrictions

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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 224 minutes

Audio

Pauline Dougherty

Susan Drake-Raphals, May 7, 1983, inclusive

Box: 15, CD: Drake-Raphals 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 71 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Drake-Raphals discusses her role in the Workers Party and C.L.R. James in the 1940s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Susan Drake-Raphals

Hal Draper, Nov 5, 1983, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 15, Cassette: Draper 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 72 B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 72 A (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Draper characterizes the interview as "a rundown on the birth of neo-Shactmanism," and it includes an analysis of Shactman's personality and the trajectory of the Shactman group's activities. As a part of this, Draper discusses the New International, discusses the paper's of board and editorship, his role as editor of Labor Action between 1949-1958, and the tabloid-like nature of that publication. He also discusses the merger of Independent Socialist League and Socialist Party and debates within the Workers Party about Zionism from 1948-1949. Draper also discusses the political disintegration of the Shactmanite group and his move to Berkeley.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Harold Draper and Paul Buhle for this interview were transferred to New York University. Permission to publish or reproduce this interview must be secured from the Tamiment Library.

This interview is not to be transcribed without the permission of Harold Draper or his heirs.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 128 minutes

Audio

Hal Draper

Walter Duda, Mar 15, 1983, inclusive

Box: 3, Cassette: 73 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 15, CD: Duda 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Duda discusses the Lithuanian-American Left's activities around Connecticut's Brass Valley during the 1920s-1950s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 24 minutes

Jane Dudley, 1981, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, Cassette: 74 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 15, CD: Dudley 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Dudley discusses the relationship between dance and left politics, the New Dance group, Martha Graham, and civil rights.

Interview by Richard Wormser.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Preservation Note: Incubation was attempted on this audiocassette, however it could not be digitized due to its condition.

Raya Dunayevskaya, Mar 24, 1983, inclusive

Box: 3, Cassette: 75 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 15, CD: Dunayevskaya 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Dunayevskaya discusses Leon Trotsky and Trotskyism during the 1930s, the Johnson-Forest group during the 1940s, the coal strikes of 1949-1950, and the origins of the Marxist-Humanist organization News and Letters.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Raya Dunayevskaya

George Edwards, Nov 4, 1983, inclusive

Box: 3, Cassette: 76 A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 15, CD: G. Edwards 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Edwards discusses his political origins as Garveyite during the 1920s, his social life in the 1920s-1930s, his experience as semiprofessional football player, his work as a prohibition-era gangster and factory worker, his activities as a Communist organizer in the Kansas-Nebraska district during the 1930s-1940s, and his disillusionment with the Communist movement in Oakland, California during the 1940s-1950s. Edwards also discusses life in Ghana during the 1950s-1960s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 155 minutes in three parts; Preservation note: Tape incubated for binder hydrolysis

Audio

George Edwards

Herb Edwards, Feb 12, 1972, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Edwards discusses life in Wisconsin lumber during the early 1900s, the Industrial Workers of the World, Elmer Smith, the repression of the IWW, Edwards' time at San Quentin, and the ebb of the IWW.

Interview by Tom Copeland & Tracy Dalton.

Use Restrictions

Release form releases rights regarding use to the Minnesota Historical Society. Please contact Tamiment Library or the Minnesota Historical Society for more information.

Hodee Edwards, Nov 12, 1983, inclusive

Box: 15, CD: H. Edwards 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 78 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Edwards discusses her background in Boston Jewish community during the 1920s-30s, her experience as a Communist activist in California during the 1940s, her activities crusading for women's rights, the publication People's World in 1949, her life in Ghana during the 1950s-60s, and life events from the 1960s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 126 minutes in two parts

Audio

Hodee Edwards

Peter Elish, Jun 27, 1983, inclusive

Box: 15, CD: Elish 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 77 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview addresses the activities of the Slovenian-American mutual aid society SNPJ (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota) and the relationship between Slavic ethnic identities and the left.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 95 minutes

Audio

Peter Elish

Melech Epstein, Jan 9, 1974, inclusive

Box: 15, CD: M. Epstein 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 79 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes recollections of Epstein's experiences since his immigration from Warsaw in 1913, including editorship of Morgen Freiheit. He also provides comments on Yiddish publications and Jewish life in America, the Cold War, Israel, and 1970s American politics.

Interview by Milton Cantor.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 61 minutes

Audio

Melech Epstein

Virginia Epstein, Mar 30, 1981, inclusive

Box: 3, Cassette: 80 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 15, CD: V. Epstein 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

The interview covers Epstein's background in Dallas, Texas (born 1885) as child of mixed Episcopalian-Jewish marriage. It also covers her time in New York from 1908, Socialist Party activities during the 1910s, Communist Party involvement from the 1920s, the American Council on US-Soviet Friendship, the Committee of American Women, and local political activities in Queens, New York.

Interview by Ruth F. Prago.

Audio

Virginia Epstein

Ernest Erber, Apr 23, 1984, inclusive

Box: 81, Cassette: 365 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 15, CD: Erber 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Ernest Erber

Seymour Faber, Mar 30, 1983, inclusive

Box: 15, CD: Faber 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 82 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of radical Zionism, the Johnson-Forest Tendency, and activities in Detroit during the 1930s-1960s.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 86 minutes

Audio

Seymour Faber

Elmer Felhaber, Feb 5, 1981, inclusive

Box: 15, CD: Felhaber 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 83 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Felhaber discusses Minnesota newspaper unionism during the 1930s, the CIO and the Communist Party, the Ohio Left after World War II, and his travels abroad.

Interview by Bill Schecter.

General note

Index available

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 4 minutes; Preservation Note: One of the audiocassettes could not be digitized due to its condition.

Audio

Elmer Felhaber

Duncan Ferguson (Memorial Meeting), 1975, inclusive

Box: 3, Cassette: 84 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 15, CD: Ferguson 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Eulogy by Harry Ring for Duncan Ferguson, a sculptor and activist in Socialist Workers Party during the 1940s-1970s.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Duncan Ferguson (Memorial Meeting)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Dec 1981, inclusive

Box: 3, Cassette: 85 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 9, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 15, CD: Ferlinghetti 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes an analysis of the Beat Generation in retrospect and the relationship between the San Francisco avant-garde arts scene and anarchism during the 1940s through the early 1950s. Ferlinghetti also discusses the formation of the City Lights book store and publishing company, and artists in 1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Joseph Figueredo, Nov 3, 1983, inclusive

Box: 15, CD: Figuerdo 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 86 A-D (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Figueredo discusses the Portuguese-American Left in New Bedford and Fall River, Massachusetts during the 1930s-1940s. He speaks the beginning of his introduction to politics during the strikes of the 1920s and Communist role. He addresses the lack of formal fraternal and cultural structure and absence of regular Portuguese-language Communist press. Additionally, the interview covers the use of local radio, Cold War pressures during the 1940s, his departure to San Francisco, and activities in International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) from the 1950s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 242 minutes in four parts

Audio

Joseph Figueredo

Bruno Fischer, Nov 1982, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 308 C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 15, CD: Fischer 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Bruno Fischer

Morris Fisher, Mar 16, 1983, inclusive

Box: 16, CD: Fisher 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 87 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Fisher discusses left politics and Jewish culture from the 1930s-1970s. Topics include labor Zionism and the Workmen's Circle, the Jewish Socialist Farband, and the Miami Beach Yiddishkayt.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Morris Fisher

Jacob Fisherman, Nov 3, 1979, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 393 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 16, CD: Fisherman 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Jacob Fisherman

Henry Foner, Mar 29, 1976, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Foner discusses being driven out of teaching during the late 1940s, industrial and union activities during the 1948-1970s, the Communist Party, and Ben Gold.

Interview by Russell Karr.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Edith Fox, July 1981, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 419 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 16, CD: Fox 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Nora Wainer.

Historical/Biographical Note

Edith Fox was born in the Soviet Union, and her family immigrated to Philadelphia when she was a child. She became a socialist through her involvement in Hashomer as a child. As an adult, she joined the Worker's Party, then became followers of C.L.R. James (Johnson-Forest Tendency), and joined the Socialist Workers Party. Fox and her husband Art moved to Detroit and became active in the with the democratization faction of the United Auto Workers Union. The Foxes worked on a Ford assembly line for twenty years. They stayed in the SWP until the 1960s.

The interview was taken by Nora Wainer in Los Angeles in 1981 for an oral history project on radical women with a focus on Trotskyist Women.

Audio

Edith Fox

Emmanuel Fried, 1977-1983, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 310 A-E (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 16, CD: Fried 1-6 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Several recordings of readings and interviews of Emmanuel Fried. The first disk contains a May 1983 discussion for Buffalo radio station WBNY with topics including education, acting, union organizing, writing, impact of blacklist on career. The second and third disks are the recording of a Niagara-Erie writing conference held at St. John's Grace Episcopal Church in Buffalo, New York on Oct 30, 1980. Fried gives a reading from his plays and there is also a reading by author Peter Mathiessen. The fourth disk contains a radio interview of Fried by John Nash for WADU in Buffalo, taken in Mar 1980. The fifth disk contains a readings from the Labor Writers Workshop on Jun 8, 1977, introduced by Emmanuel Fried and broadcast on WBFO of Buffalo. The sixth disk contains the recording of a New Letters on the Air (Kansas City, Missouri) broadcast of readings and an interview of Fried from Jun 1978.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Emmanuel Fried

William (Bill) Friedland, May 6, 1983, inclusive

Box: 3, Cassette: 89 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 16, CD: Friedland 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Friedland discusses the cultural perspective of the Workers Party, role of music in Friedland's life and creation of the record Songs for Sectarians, college teaching, and sympathy for antiwar students during the 1960s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 47 minutes

Audio

William (Bill) Friedland

Isadore Friedman & Max Fishgold, Mar 15, 1983, inclusive

Box: 16, CD: Friedland & Fishgold 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 90 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview addresses union activities and the Left from the 1930s-1950s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 63 minutes

Audio

Isadore Friedman & Max Fishgold

Mary Gale, Jan 29, 1982, inclusive

Box: 3, Cassette: 91 A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 16, CD: Gale 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Gale discusses growing up in East New York and Queens in the 1910s-1920s, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) during the 1920s-1930s, the Scottsboro case, and the American Labor Party. She also discusses family and home life in relation to her work and political activism.

Interview by Ruth F. Prago.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 115 minutes in three parts

Audio

Mary Gale

Sam Garber, Nov 5, 1979, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 395 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 16, CD: Garber 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Sam Garber

Alex and Faye Gardner, Abe Kantor, and Hyman Hodes, Mar 15, 1983, inclusive

Box: 3, Cassette: 93 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 16, CD: Gardners, Kantor & Hodes 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Topics covered in the interview include Jewish and Italian radicalism during the 1930s-1950s, the Unemployed Councils, the Workers' Club, Works Progress Administration, the Garibaldi Clubs, work as Vito Marcantonio's campaign manager, and union activities.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 77 minutes

Audio

Alex and Faye Gardner, Abe Kantor, and Hyman Hodes

Sender Garlin, Oct 14, 1976, inclusive

Box: 16, CD: Garlin 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 92 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of Garlin's background in the Socialist Party in the 1910s and his time at the Daily Worker in the 1920s-1930s, including the paper's atmosphere and humor.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

Approval for direct quotations must be obtained from interviewee or his heirs.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 122 minutes in two parts

Audio

Sender Garlin

Hugo Gellert, Apr 4, 1984, inclusive

Box: 3, Cassette: 94 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 16, CD: Gellert 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of immigration from Hungary to the United States and return to Hungary during World War I. It also covers Gellert's work as an artist and cartoonist for commercial publications The New Yorker and New York, the Hungarian-American Left newspaper Uj Elore, and radical arts and literary journal The Masses. Interview includes Gellert's recollections of fellow Masses contributor John Reed.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Hugo Gellert

Sophie Melvin-Gerson, Mar 13, 1976, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes description of background and youth in Ukraine, Massachusetts, and New York. It also includes discussion of Gerson's involvement in the Young Communist League and the events of the Passaic and Gastonia textile strikes.

Interview by Alan Safron.

Joseph Giganti, Jul 26, 1983, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 16, CD: Giganti 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 96 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the Italian-American Communist newspaper II Lavoratore and its editorial staff and theatrical commentary. Giganti also discusses the nature of Italian-American Left in Chicago during the 1920s through 1940s, "anti-Red" police squad in Chicago, Giganti's expulsion from Communist movement, early Trotskyism, leftist activities of different ethnic groups in Chicago during the 1930s. Other subjects commented upon are the barber's union and Giganti's thoughts on the activities of various factions including those following Oehler, Lovestone, Cannon, and Muste.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 89 minutes in two parts

Audio

Joseph Giganti

Katya Gilden, Nov 21, 1976, inclusive

Box: 16, CD: Gilden 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Cassette: 309A (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, Cassette: 95 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Katya Gilden

Todd Gitlin, Mar 1, 1970, inclusive

Box: 16, CD: Gitlin 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 97 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of Students for a Democratic Society during the 1960s.

Interview by Kirkpatrick Sale.

Audio

Todd Gitlin

Barbara Gittings, Jul 26, 1983, inclusive

Box: 3, Cassette: 98 A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 16, CD: Gittings 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview discusses the gay liberation movement during the 1950s-1970s.

Interview by Howard August.

Audio

Barbara Gittings

Jessie Glaberman, Aug 17, 1977 - Sep 3, 1977, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 36/37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 16, CD: J. Glaberman 1-10 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 99 A-G (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the Socialist Workers Party and Workers Party in New York, Philadelphia and Detroit during the 1930s-1950s.

Interviews by Lyn Goldfarb and Ruth Meyerowitz.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Jessie Glaberman

Martin Glaberman, Mar 29, 1983, inclusive

Box: 3, Cassette: 100 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 16, CD: M. Glaberman 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Glaberman discusses the Johnson-Forest Tendency in New York and Detroit during the 1940s-1950s.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Audio

Martin Glaberman

Ruth Glassman, Feb 1, 1979, inclusive

Box: 16, CD: Glassman 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 101 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Glassman discusses the American Youth Congress during the 1930s, World War II and shop agitation, women in factories, and the United Electrical Workers.

Interview by Ruth F. Prago.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 78 duration in two parts

Audio

Ruth Glassman

Albert Glotzer, Oct 31, 1934, inclusive

Box: 17, CD: Glotzer 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 335 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Audio

Albert Glotzer

Albert Glotzer, Dec 21, 1983, inclusive

Box: 17, CD: Glotzer 4-7 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, Cassette: 102 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Glotzer's family background in Russia and Chicago, the Communist Party during the 1920s, American Trotskyism during the late 1920s-30s, and the Workers Party during the 1940s. The last cassette contains a narration by Glotzer in response to written questions by Jon Bloom.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 193 minutes in four parts

Audio

Albert Glotzer

Lillian Gold, Apr 4, 1982, inclusive

Box: 3, Cassette: 103 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 17, CD: Gold 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Gold's youth in New York City, her recollections of World War I, seeking employment, her involvement in the Socialist Party in 1933, her activities with the War Resisters' League, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the trade union movement, and union work with teachers in 1950.

Interview by Sy Singer.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. In release form, narrator granted Tamiment Library broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Audio

Lillian Gold

Itche Goldberg, Jun 5, 1982, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 17, CD: Goldberg 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 104 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Goldberg's role as editor of Yiddishe Kultur, his early literary influences, an analysis of the development of Yiddish literature, political and introspective approaches to literature, and literary criticism. Goldberg also discusses the future of the Yiddish language and literature.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Itche Goldberg

Itche Goldberg, Feb 16, 1983, inclusive

Box: 17, CD: Goldberg 2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 105 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains Goldberg's reflections on secular and religious aspects of Jewish cultural identity and an examination of unique characteristics of Jewish humor.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Itche Goldberg

Goldens Bridge Colony, 1984, inclusive

Box: 17 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 425 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

This recording documents life and political outlooks of the residents in this Westchester County cooperative community from its founding in 1927 through the 1950s.

Audio

Goldens Bridge Colony

Mollie Goldstein, Nov 7, 1981, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 17, CD: M. Goldstein 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 106 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview topics include the Communist Party, women's organizations, price and rent protests in Brooklyn and the Bronx, and activism during the 1930s.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Audio

Mollie Goldstein

Nina Goldstein, Mar 19, 1980, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, Cassette: 107 A-D (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 17, CD: N. Goldstein 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Goldstein's early life in Russia and Canada, her work and political life in Brownsville and East Flatbush, Brooklyn during the 1920s-1930s, and the activities of the Communist Party. The interview also covers theMorgen Freiheit, the International Workers Order, Russian War Relief and aid to Israel during the 1940s, and the Jewish cultural movement in Miami Beach.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Audio

Nina Goldstein

Walter Goldwater, Feb 15, 1983, inclusive

Box: 17, CD: Goldwater 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 108 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Goldwater discusses C.L.R. James during the 1920s-1960s, the Workers Party during the 1940s, Trotskyism, anti-Stalinism, neo-conservatism, Pan-Africanism, and Eric Williams.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Walter Goldwater

Helen Goodman, Oct 20, 2002, inclusive

Box: 2, Cassette: 108A (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 17, CD: Goodman 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussions of childhood in Brooklyn and early jobs, the Great Depression, and work in defense plants during World War II. Activity in the UE Local 1707, American Labor Party, and Jewish Association Services for the Aged are discussed, as are May Day parades and her father's socialist activities. The interview also includes comments on the Paul Robeson concert at Peekskill and Rosenberg executions. Goodman also talks about members of her family and working with the Jewish Association Services for the Aged.

Interview by Laura Helton.

Audio

Helen Goodman

Michael Gordon, Mar 25, 1977, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 109 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 17, CD: Gordon 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Gordon describes his association with Frontier Films, and coming to film through a background with the Film and Photo League and Group Theatre during the 1930s. Gordon discusses and contrasts the politics of Frontier Films and Group Theatre. Interview also includes discussion of Gordon's work on various projects and associates in Hollywood and New York City.

Interview by Russell Campbell.

Audio

Michael Gordon

Grandma was an Activist, 1983, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 110 A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 17, CD: Grandma was an Activist 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

The six half-hour segements of "Grandma was an Activist" include excerpts from OHAL interviews with Louise Thompson, Jane Dudley, Alice Dodge Wolfson, Meridel LeSueur, among others.

1) The Black and the Red 2) How Do You Spell Relief? 3) On the Line 4) They Shall Not Pass 5) Readin' and Ritin' on the Road to Power 6) Militant Muse

Historical/Biographical Note

Ruth F. Prago, a member of the Oral History of the American Left staff, developed the idea for a radio series based on interviews to be conducted for the OHAL collection. Together with Pacifica Radio, OHAL received a one-year grant from the New York Council for the Humanities to conduct interviews with twenty-five women about radicalism during the 1930s. Radio producers Beth Friend and Charles Potter used these interviews to make a six-part radio series titled "Grandma Was an Activist," first broadcast in 1983. One of the series interviewers, Bea Lemisch, and three of the women interviewed for the series, participated in a panel discussion at the 1984 Berkshire Conference on Women's History.

Audio

Grandma was an Activist

Leah Dillon Grant, Jul 24, 1983, inclusive

Box: 17, CD: Grant 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 111 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Yiddish literary milieu in 1920s and role of interviewee's uncle, A.M. Dillon. Also covered are the Johnson-Forest Tendency, its leaders and activities during the 1940s, and cultural perspectives.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Leah Dillon Grant

Janet Green, May 29, 2009, inclusive

Box: 17, CD: Green 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, CD: Green 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding Green's experiences growing up in the Bronx and working in New York City.

Interview by Jeff Eichler.

Samuel Greenberg, Oct 27, 1982, inclusive

Box: 17, CD: Greenberg 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 112 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the Yiddish Left in Los Angeles and nationally from the 1930s-1980s. This includes Greenberg's analysis of various personalities in Yiddish literature including Leivick, Avrom Reyzen, Moshe Nadir, and others. He comments on the relative literary merits of the Morgen Freiheit, Forward, and Freie Arbeiter Stimme, and describes the break between the Freiheit and many writers on the Yiddish literary scene.

Greenberg expresses pessimism regarding Yiddish culture and working class political movements in the 1980s, and details his own loss of faith in the Soviet Union during the preceding decades. Facets of this discussion include the diminished state of Yiddish culture in the Soviet Union, contrasts between his travels there during 1930s and 1980s, and Greenberg's analyses of the reasons for the decline of Jewish progressive movement.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 80 minutes in two parts

Audio

Samuel Greenberg

Guardian Forum, May 26, 1973, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 113 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 17, CD: Guardian Forum 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

"What Road to Building a New Communist Party?"; criticism of 1960s politics; history of class struggle.

Topics included: women's role in class struggle, role of race and nationality in class struggle, discussion of how new Communist Party would be organized, the tension between unity and sects, the activities of the October League

Hosted by the Guardian newspaper

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Guardian Forum

Sarah Gudelman, Nov 3, 1979, inclusive

Box: 17, CD: Gudelman 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Box: 396 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of Sarah Gudelman's youth in Russia and Germany, her family history, immigration to Lower East Side in New York City and work in the garment trade. Other topics include life with her husband, the sculptor Gudelman, and the death of their first child. Also discussed are Sarah Gudelman's work as administrator for 18 progressive shuls in Bronx, her assessments of artists and Yiddish literary figures including Moshe Nadir and Itche Goldberg, and her involvement in the Communist Party.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Sarah Gudelman

Oive Halonen, Feb 27, 1978, inclusive

Box: 17, CD: Halonen 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, Cassette: 114 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Halonen discusses Finnish-American radicalism in Minnesota and Oregon during the 1910s-1930s, participation in Spanish Civil War as member of Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and experiences as Seattle machinist during the 1940s-1960s.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Audio

Oive Halonen

Michael Hanusiak, Mar 30, 1983, inclusive

Box: 17, CD: Hanusiak 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 115 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Topics covered by this interview include the Ukrainian-American Left, the International Workers Order during the 1930s-1940s, the effects of McCarthyism, problems of organization, publications, and the generational continuity in the ethnic progressive movement through the 1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. In release form, narrator granted Tamiment Library broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 56 minutes

Audio

Michael Hanusiak

Louis Harap, Mar 19, 1978, inclusive

Box: 17, CD: Harap 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, Cassette: 116 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Harap discusses Harvard University during the 1930s, Jewish Survey during the 1940s, Jewish Life during the 1940s-1950s, the Rosenberg case, and Jewish Currents during the 1950s-1970s.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Audio

Louis Harap

Harlem Riots Inquiry, Apr 14, 1965, inclusive

Box: 6, reel: 386 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 17, CD: Harlem Riots Inquiry 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview with Sanford Katz, the attorney representing defendants from the Progressive Labor Movement who were charged with involvement in the Harlem Riots of 1964. Subjects include criticism of actions of grand jury, selection of the grand jury, and the implications of holding Eleanor Goldstein in contempt multiple times over the same questions.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Harlem Riots Inquiry

Michael Harrington, Oct 6, 1969, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 117 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 17, CD: Harrington 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the "prehistory" of Students for a Democratic Society during the late 1950s and the activities of SDS during the 1960s.

Interview by Kirkpatrick Sale.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 109 minutes

Audio

Michael Harrington

Michael Harrington, May 2, 1988, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 117.5 A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 17, CD: Harrington 3-5 (Material Type: Audio)

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 190 minutes in three parts

Audio

Michael Harrington

Daniel Heartquist, Feb 5, 1981, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, Cassette: 118 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: Heartquist 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the Socialist movement in Sweden, Swedish-American Socialism, the Left in New England during the 1930s-1940s, and reflections on American Communism.

Interview by Bill Schecter.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 119 minutes in two parts

Audio

Daniel Heartquist

James B. Henry, May 11, 1976, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the legal prosecution of the International Workers Order in New York State during the 1950s and Henry's role as ex-Special Assistant Attorney General.

Interview by Howard Brown.

Michael Henry, Jun 4, 1980, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 119 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: M. Henry 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Theresa Diamond.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 82 minutes in two parts

Audio

Michael Henry

Philip Hochstein, Oct 28, 1986, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 424 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: Hochstein 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of immigration from Russian Empire, youth in Bayonne, New Jersey, and the press and the Left.

Interview by Diana Maull.

Audio

Philip Hochstein

Otis Hood, Mar 24, 1981, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 120 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: Hood 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of Hood's union-family background, the New England Left in the 1930s, the Communist Party in Vermont during the 1930s, the Communist Party in Boston during the 1930s-1940s, Hood's experience in prison, and other reflections.

Interview by Bill Schecter.

General note

Index available

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 104 minutes in two parts

Audio

Otis Hood

Walter Hoops, Oct 6, 1984, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 121 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 18, CD: Hoops 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the Saint Louis Free Thought movement from the nineteenth century to 1940s, Hoops' background in Germany, his immigration to the United States, the Rand School of Social Science, the Socialist Party in Saint Louis during the 1930s, and Free Thought and atheism in Saint Louis from the 1940s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 73 minutes in two parts

Audio

Walter Hoops

Frank Horzen, Oct 26, 1982, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 122 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 18, CD: Horzen 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview consists of an analysis of politics in Fontana, California by member of the religious (anti-socialist) South Slav benefit association and steel worker, who later became mayor of Fontana. Also covers are attitudes toward Henry Kaiser and later (Third World) immigrants.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Frank Horzen

International Labor Defense, Jun 21, 1982, inclusive

Box: 18, CD: ILD 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 124 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview with David Freedman, Sam Neuberger, and Fay Pasternak on International Labor Defense, National Lawyers Guild, and radical legal work in the 1930s-1940s. Interview includes recollections of Joe Brodsky, Carol King, Vito Marcantonio, and others.

Interview by Ann Ginger and Debra Bernhardt.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrators and interviewer. In release form, narrators granted Tamiment Library broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Audio

International Labor Defense

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 1, Oct 22, 1974, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 123 A (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 6 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Audio

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 1

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Man 1, Oct 22, 1974, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 123 B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 123 A (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 6 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview is on track 1 of CD ILGWU 1.

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Audio

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Man 1

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 2, Feb 10, 1975, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 123 C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 7 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Audio

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 2

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Man 2, Dec 16, 1974, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 123 D (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 8 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 123 E (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview is on track 2 of CD ILGWU 2.

The narrator discusses work in the garment industry and figures in the ILGWU during the 1910s-1940s.

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Audio

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Man 2

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Man 3, Oct 24, 1974, inclusive

Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 123 G (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, CD: ILGWU 9 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 123 F (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview is on track 2 of CD ILGWU 3.

Interview by David Gurowsky.

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 3, Oct 23, 1974, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 123 F (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview is on track 1 of CD ILGWU 3.

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 60 minutes

Audio

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 3

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 4, Nov 19, 1974, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 123 E (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview is on track 1 of CD ILGWU 2.

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 56 minutes

Audio

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 4

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 5, Dec 27, 1974, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 123 H (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview is on track 1 of CD ILGWU 4.

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 23 minutes

Audio

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 5

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 6, Oct 22, 1974, inclusive

Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 123 B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview is on track 2 of CD ILGWU 1.

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 47 minutes

Audio

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 6

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 7, Mar 12, 1975, inclusive

Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 10 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 123 J (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, Cassette: 123 I (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 5 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Audio

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 7

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 8, Jan 2, 1975, inclusive

Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 8 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 123 D (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: ILGWU 4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Cassette: 123 H (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview is on track 2 of CD ILGWU 4.

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Audio

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, Anonymous Woman 8

Evelyn Irsay, Jun 1982, inclusive

Box: 18, CD: Irsay 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 383 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Evelyn Irsay

CLR James, Feb 25, 1974, inclusive

Box: 81, Cassette: 369 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: James 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a speech titled "Africa and World Politics" at the University of Rhode Island.

Recorded by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

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CLR James

CLR James, Oct 15, 1981, inclusive

Box: 81, Cassette: 369 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: James 3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

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CLR James

Abdeen Jabara, Mar 28, 1983, inclusive

Box: 18, CD: Jabara 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 125 B-C (Material Type: Audio)

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Abdeen Jabara

Jewish People's Chorus, Apr 14, 1980, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 126 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: Jewish People's Chorus 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Excerpt from performance at Yablon Center in Los Angeles, California.

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Jewish People's Chorus

S.J. Jokubka, Jul 28, 1983, inclusive

Box: 18, CD: Jokubka 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 125 A (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Jokubka's background in Lithuania and activities in Argentina during the 1930s. He also speaks of his editorship of Vilnis, a Chicago-based Lithuanian-language newspaper, since 1942. Jokubka also discusses the problems of publishing ethnic newspaper and the role of cultural activities in the Lituanian-American movement.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

S.J. Jokubka

Howard Johnson, Oct 17, 1979, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: data_value_missing_cdf477656c5e54755650898b7f0ec3cb (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, Cassette: 127 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: Johnson 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Johnson's involvement in show business in Harlem during the 1930s and dancing at the Cotton Club. He also describes his politicization, his entry into the Communist party, community involvement during the 1940s, and figures such as Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson. Johnson also analyzes the relations of blacks and whites in the Communist Party. The recording also includes a sound reel from his night class.

Interview by Richard Wormser.

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Howard Johnson

Howard "Stretch" Johnson, Jun 26, 1984 - Aug 23, 1984, inclusive

Box: 18, CD: Johnson 2-8 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 333A-E (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Dan Cohen.

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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 330 minutes in five parts; Preservation note: Poor audio quality

Audio

Howard "Stretch" Johnson

Howard Johnson, Dec 1990, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

This interview is a part of the series "Oral Histories of African Americans" by the Center for Oral History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The interview covers his activities as a performer at the Cotton Club, as a Communist Party organizer, and as an educator.

Interview by Kathryn Takara.

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Onni Kaartinen, Jul 7, 1984, inclusive

Box: 18, CD: Kaartinen 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 128 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Kaartinen discusses his Finnish-American radical background during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War, and fraternal and political activities from the 1940s-1970s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Onni Kaartinen

Morris (Moshe) Kaplan, April 15, 1980, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 129 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: Kaplan 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Kaplan discusses the Yiddishe Kultur Farband (YKUF) and the Jewish cultural movement in Los Angeles.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Morris (Moshe) Kaplan

Maude White Katz, Oct 18, 1981, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 130 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 18, CD: Katz 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Katz's early days in the Communist Party, the fight against white chauvinism, and the Needle Trades Industrial Union's activities during the 1920s.

Interview by Ruth F. Prago.

Audio

Maude White Katz

Ed Kempf, Oct 29, 1978, inclusive

Box: 19, CD: Kempf 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, Cassette: 131 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Kempf discusses his role as New Jersey Regional Director of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee-Harrison-Hoboken-Jersey City, Crucible Steel, Otis Elevator, the Socialist Party, and the Socialist Workers Party during the 1930s.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Audio

Ed Kempf

Aaron Kertman, Apr 7, 1980, inclusive

Box: 4, Cassette: 132 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 19, CD: Kertman 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Kertman discusses the Yiddishe Kultur Farband (YKUF) and the Jewish cultural movement in Los Angeles.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 56 minutes

Audio

Aaron Kertman

Anton Kerzic, Jul 27, 1983, inclusive

Box: 19, CD: Kerzic 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 133 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the origins of Slovenian-American fraternal movement in Waukegan and North Chicago, Illinois. Kerzic also covers his work in a cooperative grocery store during the 1930s-1940s and work with Finnish-American fraternal group in milk coop during the 1930s-1950s. Kerzic also discusses conflict between the midwestern and eastern factions of the SNPJ (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota) and his role as founder of a savings and loan bank in Waukegan.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 89 minutes in two parts

Audio

Anton Kerzic

Maurice Kish, Sep 23, 1979, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 397 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 19, CD: Kish 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

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Maurice Kish

Maurice Kish, Oct 29, 1979, inclusive

Box: 19, CD: Kish 3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 398 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

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Maurice Kish

Maurice Kish, Feb 17, 1983, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 134 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 19, CD: Kish 4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Brief interview with Russian-born painter about his family and his work.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

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Maurice Kish

Camp Kinderland Reunion, Jun 9, 1979, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 135 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 19, CD: Camp Kinderland 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording includes reminiscences, reading of letters, and songs and dances.

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Camp Kinderland Reunion

Mary Kolehmainen, Mar 10, 1981, inclusive

Box: 19, CD: Kolehmainen 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 136 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Koloehmainen discusses emigration from Finland, the activities of the Socialist Party, and the Finnish women's newspaper.

Interview by Bill Schecter.

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Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Mary Kolehmainen and Bill Schechter for this interview were transferred to New York University. Permission to publish or reproduce this interview must be secured from the Tamiment Library.

Mary Kolehmainen must approve use of this interview, and wishes to be quoted by name.

Audio

Mary Kolehmainen

Mary Kolehmainen, Jul 30, 1983, inclusive

Box: 19, CD: Kolehmainen 2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 137 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Kolehmainen discusses her immigration to America, life in the Finnish-American Left, the activities of Finns in Boston area during the 1930s-1940s, her role as editor of women's weekly Naisten Viiri, and the support of Finnish-American movement.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 35 minutes

Audio

Mary Kolehmainen

Joseph Korn, Apr 16, 1980, inclusive

Box: 19, CD: Korn 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 138 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Korn discusses the Yiddishe Kultur Farband (YKUF) and the Jewish cultural movement in Los Angeles.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Joseph Korn

Ernest Koski, Jul 31, 1983, inclusive

Box: 19, CD: Koski 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 139 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Koski discusses the Finnish-American Left in Mesabi Iron Range and the radical Finnish newspaper Tyomies.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Ernest Koski

Nettie Kravitz, Apr 1, 1983, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 140 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 19, CD: Kravitz 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Kravitz discusses the Johnson-Forest Tendency, radical feminism, and activities on the East Coast and in Detroit, from the 1940s-1960s.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Audio

Nettie Kravitz

Rose Kryzak, Jan 4, 1982, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 54 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 19, CD: Kryzak 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 141 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Kryzak describes growing up in New York City, her life as a Communist Party member from 1933, her trip to Soviet Union and impressions of it, the Communist Party and women's issues, and the McCarthy period.

Interview by Ruth F. Prago.

Audio

Rose Kryzak

Jacob Kunin, Mar 2, 1967, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: data_value_missing_ea2e439560b69293843fdbf4d0d0fb2b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 7, Folder: 55 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Kunin discusses ethnic groups and politics in Bridgeport, Connecticut during the 1920s-1940s.

Interview by Bruce Stave.

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Kay Lahusen, Jul 26, 1983, inclusive

Box: 19, CD: Lahusen 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 143 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview with Kay Lahusen (also known as Kay Tobin) covers relationship between gay liberation movement and the Left, publications, and legislative campaigns during the 1950s-1970s.

Interview by Howard August.

Audio

Kay Lahusen

Ollie Leeds, Aug 9, 1983, inclusive

Box: 19, CD: Leeds 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 81, Cassette: 370 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Howard August.

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Ollie Leeds

Meridel LeSueur, May 1, 1982, inclusive

Box: 19, Cassette: LeSueur 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 144 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview details author Meridel LeSueur's recollections of Minnesota radicalism during the Great Depression.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Audio

Meridel LeSueur

Aaron Levenstein, Mar 5, 1974, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 336.5 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 19, CD: Levenstein 1 (Material Type: Audio)

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Aaron Levenstein

Alfred Baker Lewis, Sep 8, 1967, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: data_value_missing_a31a12feaa29d3fe642b4b15a0326bc4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 7, Folder: 56 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Lewis and his wife discuss the Socialist Party and the New England region during the 1910s-1940s and the civil rights movement during the 1940s-1960s.

Interview by Bruce Stave.

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Fred Lilja, Jun 28, 1983, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 146 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 19, CD: Lilja 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Lilja discusses his immigration to the United States and his work as itinerant miner, lumber worker, and fisherman during the 1910s. He also covers the activities of Finnish-American Left in Monessan, Pennsylvania during the 1920s-1950.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Fred Lilja

Sam Liptzin, Mar 22, 1979, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 399 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 19, CD: Liptzin 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

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Sam Liptzin

Frank Lovell, Jan 19, 1990, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 312 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 19, CD: Lovell 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)

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Frank Lovell

Frank Lovell, Feb 2, 1990, inclusive

Box: 19, CD: Lovell 4-5 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 313 (Material Type: Audio)

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Frank Lovell

Luisa, May 3, 1979 and Mar 30, 1979, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 148 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 19, CD: Luisa 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the United Electrical Workers Local 431 at the Emerson Electric Company in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Interview by Ruth Prago.

Audio

Luisa

James Lustig, Oct 20, 1982, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 149 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Folder: 57 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 19, CD: Lustig 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Lustig discusses the activities of Hungarian-American Left in the fur-leather and electrical workers unions during the 1920s-1940s, his own role in strikes, blacklisting in the 1950s, and work on Henry Wallace's farm. Lustig also discusses his involvement with the publications Uj Elore and Hungarian-American Word during the 1950s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

James Lustig

A.B. Magil, Oct 31, 1980, inclusive

Box: 19, CD: A. Magil 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 150 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Magil's in Yiddish culture in Philadelphia, life at the Daily Worker in the 1920s, and self-denial of Yiddish cultural activities for "broader field."

Interview by Paul Buhle.

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A.B. Magil

A.B. Magil, Jan 5, 1994 - Mar 27, 1995, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 58 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 19, CD: A. Magil 3-9 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 332 A-F (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Allen Thompson.

Audio

A.B. Magil

Vito Magli, May 15, 1983, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 151 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 19, CD: V. Magli 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interviews includes discussion of background as high school supporter of Vito Marcantonio in New York and youth leader of Marcantonio movement. Also covered is Magil's work as editor of Communist Italian-language paper, L'Unita and its support in mining regions and cities during the 1940s-1950s. Additionally, the interview covers Magil's retirement to Florida and reflections.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Vito Magli

Mary Magner, Jan 26, 1975, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 59 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Magner's activities in the Bridgeport, Connecticut Socialist Party and role as executive secretary to Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy from 1940-1957.

Interview by Bruce Stave.

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The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Robin Maisel, Feb 28 and Mar 5, 1975, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 153 A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 19, CD: Maisel 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers activities of the Socialist Workers Party during the 1960s-1970s, Maisel's work experience in print shops, and the influence of his parents' radical convictions and activities.

Interview by Claudia Hommel.

Use Restrictions

Release form assigns wide range of rights regarding use to Wayne State University. Please contact Tamiment Library or Wayne State University for more information.

Audio

Robin Maisel

Morty Manford, Aug 6, 1983, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: Manford 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 154 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding gay rights.

Interview by Howard August.

Use Restrictions

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Morty Manford and Howard August for this interview were transferred to New York University. Permission to publish or reproduce this interview must be secured from the Tamiment Library.

Morty Manford has requested that the interview be used for not-for-profit purposes only.

Audio

Morty Manford

Julius Margolin, Dec 30, 1983, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 155 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 20, CD: Margolin 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview describes Margolin's activities from 1930s-1950s. Topics include the Food Workers Industrial Union, the National Maritime Union, the World War II no-strike pledge, the Communist Party view of Trotskyism, and the Korean War.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Audio

Julius Margolin

Rita Margules, Jun 16, 2011, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: Margules 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, CD: Margules 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Mike Nash.

Alice Marsh, Feb 24, 1982, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: Marsh 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 156 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed in this interview include the activities of the Socialist Party during the 1930s and the struggle between Communists and Socialists in the Teachers Union.

Audio

Alice Marsh

Matteotti Club, 1977, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 158 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 20, CD: Matteotti 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Reunion of Rhode Island activists in Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Campaign, 50 years after execution. Disscussion of defense activities, mostly by Luigi Nardella.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Anthony Martocchia and Philip Lamantia, Oct 31, 1982, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 60 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 5, Cassette: 157 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 20, CD: Martocchia & Lamantia 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Martocchia's anarchist origins in Italy and his anti-fascist activities in Chicago during the 1920s, the San Francisco/Las Gatos anarchist group during the 1930s-1950s, and his meeting with Philip Lamantia in the 1940s.The recording also covers Lamantia's sense of support from older anarchists in the 1940s and the importance of Malatesta for Martocchia. Anarchist publications in the 1980s are also discussed.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Anthony Martocchia and Philip Lamantia

David Mattis, Dec 28, 1979, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: Mattis 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 400 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Includes discussion of Jews in film, Yiddish culture, and the Morgen Freiheit and the Forward.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

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Audio

David Mattis

Grace Burnham McDonald, Aug 10, 1973 and Aug 25, 1973, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: McDonald 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 360 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview is part of a series of interviews intended to document the activities of the Worker's Health Bureau, which was founded in 1920.

Use Restrictions

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Audio

Grace Burnham McDonald

Tom McGrath, Mar 9, 1977, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: McGrath 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 168 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers literature in the 1930s, poetry and the the Communist Party's Popular Front strategy, and Left Culture during the Cold War.

Taped responses to written questions from Paul Buhle.

Audio

Tom McGrath

Tom McGrath, undated

Box: 20, CD: McGrath 2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 345 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of McGrath's reminiscences of the Chelsea neighborhood of New York during the 1930s-1940s, including the character of the neighborhood and radicalism there. Personalities discussed include Ray Condon, Mac and Maggie McLain, and Harold Gates. Topics include relationships with various unions in Chelsea neighborhood, waterfront workers and unions (including the National Maritime Union), a local radical newspaper called the Shamrock, McGrath's job with International Labor Defense, and conflicts with the Christian Front and German American Bund. He also speaks about his activities in Los Angeles in the 1950s. The second of the recording part contains additional information McGrath's background, including his introduction to radical left politics and student activism at University of North Dakota and Louisiana State University.

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Audio

Tom McGrath

Ernest Rice McKinney, Feb 25, 1983, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 169 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 20, CD: McKinney 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Biographical interview with important African American radical, born in 1886. Topics covered include his youth and education, activities as Socialist during the 1910s, involvement with the Communist Party during the 1920s, his period as a "Musteite" during the 1930s and a "Shachtmanite" during the 1940s, the Unemployed Leagues, and A. Philip Randolph.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Audio

Ernest Rice McKinney

Vida McLevy, Nov 4, 1966, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Topics discussed include the Socialist Party in Bridgeport and the career of her husband Jasper McLevy as Socialist Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1933-1957.

Interview by Bruce Stave.

Use Restrictions

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Medem Jewish Socialist Group/Forum on Jews and the Left, Feb 26, 1982, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: Medem 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 159 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Discussion by Paul Buhle and Arthur Liebman on Jews and the Left in the United States from 1890-1982, with questions from audience and response.

Use Restrictions

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Audio

Medem Jewish Socialist Group/Forum on Jews and the Left

Clarina Michelson, Oct 29, 1979, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 164 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 20, CD: Michelson 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents strikes of department store workers.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Clarina Michelson

Nick Migas, Mar 15, 1983, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: Migas 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 160 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers unionism and politics in Gary, Indiana during the 1930s-1940s, the relationship between ethnicity and race and nationalism, and the Wisconsin National Farmers Union in the 1950s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Nick Migas

John Mitchell, Mar 30, 1981, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 161 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 20, CD: Mitchell 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Cassette: 161A-B (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the Packinghouse Workers and Communist Party in Boston, Massachusetts during the 1940s-1950s.

Interview by Bill Schecter.

Audio

John Mitchell

Eva Mizara, Jun 24, 1983, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: Mizara 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 162 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Lithuanian-American radicalism during the 1920s-1960s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Access Restrictions

Interview closed, except with permission of Eva Mizara.

Audio

Eva Mizara

Mother Audley Moore, 1972, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 163 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 20, CD: Moore 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Moore's youth in New Orleans, the Marcus Garvey movement during the 1920s, the Communist Party in Harlem during the 1930s, and her break with the Communist Party.

Interview by Mark Naison.

Audio

Mother Audley Moore

Mother Audley Moore, Dec 23, 1981, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: Moore 3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 163 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Moore's experiences in the Communist Party in Harlem during the 1930s.

Interview by Ruth Prago.

Audio

Mother Audley Moore

Anna Morgan, Jan 22, 1981 - Jan 29, 1981, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: Morgan 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 165 A-D (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Morgan discusses her Boston childhood, life in Cuba in 1917, and Chicago in the Depression. She also covers the activities of the Communist Party in Champaign, Illinois, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Columbus, Ohio during the 1930s-1950s.

Interview by Bill Schecter.

Audio

Anna Morgan

Gussie Moskowitz, Jun 4, 1976, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 166 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 20, CD: Moskowitz 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Moskowitz discusses her Hungarian-American background, the activities of the furriers union, the Communist Party, and general reflections.

Interview by Daniel Czitrom.

Audio

Gussie Moskowitz

Elma Munckton, Nov 9, 1983, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: Munckton 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 167 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Munckton discusses her experiences on a farm in Finland during the 1890s, emigration to the United States, life for domestic workers, and the activities of the Finnish-American Left in Bay Area during the 1920s-1960s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Elma Munckton

Emmanuel Muravchik, Dec 6, 1973, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: Muravchik 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 337 (Material Type: Audio)

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Emanuel Muravchik

Jim Murray, Jun 20, 1984, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 335 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 20, CD: Murray 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Cassette: 346 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Discussion regarding Cultural Correspondence.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Jim Murray

Rosemarie Muscat, Apr 13, 1980, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: Muscat 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 170 (Material Type: Audio)
Cassette: 170A-B (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Beth Haskell.

Audio

Rosemarie Muscat

Lillian N., May 19, 1982, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: Lillian 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 5, Cassette: 147 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers activities at Brooklyn College, in the National Students' League, and with the Medical Bureau of Aid to Spanish Democracy during the 1930s.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Lillian N.

Morris Nadelman, Apr 8, 1980, inclusive

Box: 20, CD: Nadelman 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 171 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Nadelman discusses his Yiddish Anarchist origins in Russia, Yiddish Anarchist activities in Los Angeles from the 1920s-1980s, Rudolf Rocker's personality and his circle, the activities of the Arbeter Ring (Workmens' Circle), and fund-raising for victims of Spanish Civil war.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Morris Nadelman and Paul Buhle for this interview were transferred to New York University. Permission to publish or reproduce this interview must be secured from the Tamiment Library.

Direct quotation must be approved by Morris Nadelman.

Audio

Morris Nadelman

Luigi Nardella, Mar 1978 and Sep 29, 1982, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 172 A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 20, CD: Nardella 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

The first two disks or tapes are comprised of an oral history interview taken by Paul Buhle on September 29, 1982.

The third tape or disk is a speech delivered to Rhode Island Labor History Forum at Knight Public Library in Providence regarding unemployed movement in Rhode Island during the 1930s.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 116 minutes in three parts; Preservation note: on third part volume is very low

Audio

Luigi Nardella

Al Nash, Dec 8, 1983, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 336 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 21, CD: Nash 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Al Nash

Steve Nelson, 1981, inclusive

Box: 6, Cassette: 173 B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 21, CD: Nelson 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 5, Cassette: 173 A (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers unemployed activities in Chicago, activities in anthracite coal districts, and the Popular Front and the Spanish Civil War.

Interview by Rick Wormser.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Steve Nelson

Walter Nelson, Apr 17, 1999, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Nelson's family history, education and work, and his involvement in the World Socialist Party (formerly Workers Socialist Party and Socialist Educational Society).

Interview by Katherine Brucher.

Esta Nette, 1978, inclusive

Box: 10 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 21, CD: Nette 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

One 1978 interview covering the history of the Pioneers, the Young Communist League, and protests.

Esta Nette, undated

Box: 21, DVD: Nette 2 (Material Type: Moving Images)
Box: 10 (Material Type: Moving Images)

Scope and Content Note

One DVD interview covering the history of the Pioneers, the Young Communist League, and protests.

Demosthenes Nicas, Circa 1987-1989, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 416 A-D (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 21, CD: Nicas 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English and Greek.

Scope and Content Note

Nicas discusses activities from 1900 through the late 1930s, including the relationship between the CIO and Communist Party in Ohio, newspapers, and the impact of the Hitler-Stalin pact.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Demosthenes Nicas

Demosthenes Nicas, 1986, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 417 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 21, CD: Nicas 5-6 (Material Type: Audio)

Language of Materials

Materials are in Greek

Scope and Content Note

Speech on Greek labor and radicalism.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Demosthenes Nicas

Rose Nobel, Feb 28, 1981, inclusive

Box: 21, CD: Nobel 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 385 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Audio

Rose Nobel

Joseph and Ruth Norrick, Mar 15, 1983, inclusive

Box: 6, Cassette: 174 A-D (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 21, CD: Norrick 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

The interview covers origins of radicalism in Indiana coal mining traditions during the 1910s-1920s, Joseph Norrick's role in 1930s-1940s Left, and perspectives on problems of "Americanizing" Communism in the United States. Ruth Norrick discusses her background in Terre Haute, Indiana, meeting with Eugene Debs, literary life in New York during the 1930s, Cold War-era blacklisting from United Nations Children's agency, and her work in journalism.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Related Archival Materials

Additional content from Joseph and Ruth Norrick was recorded on the second cassette of the Jose Alvarez interview in the Oral History of the American Left (OH 002).

Audio

Joseph and Ruth Norrick

Clarence Norris, Feb 25, 1981, inclusive

Box: 21, CD: Norris 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 175 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the Scottsboro Boys case, as recalled by one of nine defendants. Interview also covers the role of International Labor Defense and NAACP and the circumstances of his pardon.

Interview by Richard Wormser.

Audio

Clarence Norris

Paul Novick, 1979, inclusive

Box: 21, CD: Novick 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 401 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the Morgen Freiheit and Yiddish literature.

Interview by Paul Buhle

Audio

Paul Novick

Paul Novick, Jan 20, 1983, inclusive

Box: 21, CD: Novick 2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 176 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Discussion of Yiddish culture and politics including his employment by the Groysser Kundes magazine as a humorist and his involvement with the Morgen Freiheit, which he joined in 1922 and edited from 1939-1988.

Interview by Paul Buhle

Audio

Paul Novick

Paul Novick, Feb 9, 1985, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 402 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 21, CD: Novick 3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Paul Novick

Stanley Nowak, Mar 30, 1983, inclusive

Box: 6, Cassette: 177 A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 21, CD: Nowak 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the Polish-American Left in Detroit during the 1930s, cigar workers, the United Auto Workers, the American Slav Congress, different Polish-American Left organizations from the 1910s-1920s, and Poland in the 1980s. Only third disk of Nowak interview has been transcribed.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Audio

Stanley Nowak

Marjorie O'Brien, May 7, 1983, inclusive

Box: 21, CD: O'Brien 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 178 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

O'Brien discusses her background in Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin Trotskyist circle, activities in the 1940s, and her attitude towards C.L.R. James and Johnson-Forest Tendency.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Marjorie O'Brien

Harvey O'Connor, Sep 27, 1977, inclusive

Box: 21, CD: O'Connor 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 6, Cassette: 180 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents O'Connor's activities in Seattle around time of 1919 general strike, his work in the Federated Press during the 1920s-40s, relationships with Communists and oldtime labor editors and ethnic radicals such as Ludwig Lore, activities in Pittsburgh during the 1930s, and the attack of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the 1950s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Harvey O'Connor

Edna Ocko, 1981, inclusive

Box: 21, CD: Ocko 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 181 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview analyzes the relationship between the Left and dance in the 1930s-1940s, looking at form and content in radicalism and modern dance.

Interview by Richard Wormser.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Edna Ocko

Hugo Oehler, Jul 6, 1977, inclusive

Box: 21, CD: Oehler 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 179 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Oehler's philosophical background and introduction to Marx, his involvement with the Communist Party, including organization through trade unions and undercover activities within CP on behalf of Trotskyites. Oehler further analyzes the struggles between Stalin and Trotsky supporters and discusses his activities in Spanish Civil War and opinions on French Turn.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Hugo Oehler

Margaret O'Hara, Apr 22, 1980, inclusive

Box: 21, CD: O'Hara 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 81, Cassette: 380 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Theresa Diamond.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Margaret O'Hara

Gene O'Hare, undated

Box: 21, CD: O'Hare 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 182 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Victoria O'Hare Von Hagen

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Gene O'Hare

Bertell Ollman, Nov 5, 1982, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 349-350 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 21, CD: Ollman 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Ollman's background in Milwaukee in the 1940s-1950s, radicalism in Madison, Wisconsin, his political activities and intellectual growth in Madison Students League for Industrial Democracy, Students for Democratic Action, and his reflections on the Madison experience.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The release form that Tamiment Library has for this interview does not include transfer of copyright. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from the narrator, Bertell Ollman. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting this individual.

Audio

Bertell Ollman

Celia Orlansky, Oct 27, 1981, inclusive

Box: 21, CD: Orlansky 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 351-352 (Material Type: Audio)

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Celia Orlansky

Myra Page, 1982, inclusive

Box: 21, CD: Page 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 183 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Historical/Biographical Note

Myra Page was a Southern writer and novelist who authored The Gathering Storm and Moscow Yankee during the 1930s.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Myra Page

John Pandera, Oct 22, 1982, inclusive

Box: 6, Cassette: 184 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 21, CD: Pandera 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Pandera discusses the Left in the South Slav sections of San Pedro, California during the 1930s-1950s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

John Pandera

Morris Pasternak, Mar 21, 1978, inclusive

Box: 21, CD: Pasternak 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 381 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Marvin Gettleman.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Morris Pasternak

Louise Thompson Patterson, Nov 16, 1981- Nov 30, 1981, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 6, Cassette: 185 A-E (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 22, CD: Patterson 1-5 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Thompson discusses her youth in Sacramento California, her move to New York City, life in Harlem during the 1920s-1930s, and the Scottsboro case in the 1930s.

Interview by Ruth Prago.

Audio

Louise Thompson Patterson

Pearl, Feb 22, 1982, inclusive

Box: 79, Cassette: 296 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 22, CD: Pearl 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes a discussion of Pearl's youth, her relationship with her mother, her mother's influence on her outlook, and her Panamanian/West Indian heritage. She also discusses work in a textile factory while at school, and a brief period in domestic work on Park Avenue in New York. Interview includes her philosophies on activism and struggle. She describes becoming an activist during the 1930s and joining the Communist Party. She also discusses Party actions and CP activity within the needle trades union. Pearl analyzes the nature of conflict within Communist Party leadership, particularly with relation to race and gender. She compares the difference between socialist approach and the CP approach. She concludes with thoughts on feminism, critiques of the Soviet Union, and friendship and family in the CP movement.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 63 minutes; Preservation Note: One of the audiocassettes could not be digitized due to its condition.

Audio

Pearl

Albert Perocco, Jan 19, 1968, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Perocco discusses the Bridgeport, Connecticut Socialist Party and Jasper McLevy as Socialist mayor.

Interview by Bruce Stave.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Elaine Perry, Mar 26, 1979, inclusive

Box: 6, Cassette: 187 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 22, CD: Perry 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Perry discusses women's role in the electrical industry in New Jersey during World War II and the activities of the National Negro Congress. She also discusses the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers (IUE) and provides general reflections.

Interview by Ruth Prago.

Audio

Elaine Perry

Irja M. Peters, Jul 30, 1983, inclusive

Box: 22, CD: Peters 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 188 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Peters describes growing up in Finnish-American left of the 1930s in Mesabi Range, her unhappy marriage to non-Finnish intellectual, and her return to her "roots."

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Irja M. Peters

Sam Pevzner, Sep 24, 1978, inclusive

Box: 22, CD: Pevzner 2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 403 (Material Type: Audio)

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Sam Pevzner

Sam Pevzner, Jun 26, 1983, inclusive

Box: 6, Cassette: 189 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 22, CD: Pevzner 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Pevzner discusses experiences in the Pennsylvania International Workers Order (IWO), his background as a Jewish entertainer, his political conversion, and activities within the sphere of the Yiddishe Kultur Farband (YKUF).

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Sam Pevzner

Utah Phillips, undated

Box: 22, CD: Phillips 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 190 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of the IWW folk singer recalling experiences from 1940s to 1980s on a WBJC (Baltimore) radio broadcast.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Utah Phillips

Marge Piercy, Apr 1979, inclusive

Box: 79, Cassette: 297 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 22, CD: Piercy 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Marge Piercy

Rose Podmaka, Jan 22, 1979 - Mar 19, 1979, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 22, CD: Podmaka 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 191 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Podmaka discusses her background in coal and steel region of Ohio and West Virginia during the 1930s, experiences at the United Electrical Workers-Hatfield Wire & Cable in New Jersey during the 1940s, and the relationship between the UE and the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists.

Interview by Ruth Prago.

Audio

Rose Podmaka

Rose Podmaka, Oct 27, 1979, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Ira Polansky, Nov 26, 2002, inclusive

Box: 6, Cassette: 192.1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 22, CD: Polansky 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview with a program director for Camp Kinderland documents Jewish political and cultural life and includes discussion of activities at the camp and childhood in the Coops, a radical housing complex in the Bronx.

Interview by Daniel Weber.

Related Archival Materials

A transcript of the Ira Polansky interview can be found in the Communist Party of the United States of America Records (TAM 132).

Audio

Ira Polansky

Justine Polier, Jun 22, 1982, inclusive

Box: 22, CD: Polier 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 192 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Polier's recollections of legal work during the 1930s and the origins of National Lawyers' Guild.

Interview by Ann Ginger.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Justine Polier

Popular Front Culture, Dec 1977, inclusive

Box: 22, CD: Popular Front Culture 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 193 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Discussion led by Paul Buhle. Includes A.B. Magil, Steve Max, Steve Nelson, Nat Cohen and others, about the meaning of "culture" to younger generation in the Popular Front; attitudes toward sports, particularly baseball in the Left and in the Daily Worker; and neighborhood activity around cultural themes in New York.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Popular Front Culture

Pearl Zeluck Porterfield, May 7, 1983, inclusive

Box: 22, CD: Porterfield 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 194 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covering the Johnson-Forest Tendency and the activities of the Workers Party during the 1940s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Pearl Zeluck Porterfield

Albert Prago: Collection of lectures from the course "The Spanish Civil War and its International Impact", Oct 20, 1981-Dec 8, 1981, inclusive

Box: 6, Cassette: 195 A-N (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 22, CD: Prago 1-20 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

A collection of lectures from a Albert Prago-coordinated course entitled "The Spanish Civil War and its International Impact," held at the New School for Social Research in the fall of 1981. The lecturers were: Albert Prago (Oct 20, 1981, CD Prago 1-2), John Gerassi (Oct 27, 1981, CD Prago 3-5), Carl Marzani (Nov 3, 1981, CD Prago 6-8), Dante Puzzo (Nov 10, 1981, CD Prago 9-11), Victor Rabinowitz and Albert Prago (Nov 17, 1981, CD Prago 12-14), Maury Colow and Carl Geiser (Nov 24, 1981, CD Prago 15-17), Pete Seeger (Dec 1, 1981, Prago 18-20), and Albert Prago (Dec 8, 1981, CD Prago 20).

Use Restrictions

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Albert Prago: Collection of lectures from the course "The Spanish Civil War and its International Impact"

Albert Prago, Mar 20, 1991, inclusive

Box: 22, CD: Prago 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 311 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Don Amter.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

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Albert Prago

William Preston, Aug 10, 1983, inclusive

Box: 76, Cassette: 197 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 22, CD: Preston 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Preston describes the University of Wisconsin during the early 1950s, the impact of William Appleman Williams and others on historical studies, the Madison social and political milieu, his research on Industrial Workers of the World, and his experiences as a historian.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

William Preston

Timo Puropudas, Jul 31, 1983, inclusive

Box: 22, CD: Puropudas 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 196 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Puropudas, Buhle, and an unidentified man discuss Puropudas' Finnish background, his role as editor of Tyomies since 1970s, attitudes towards the status and future of ethnic presses, and Puropudas' life as recent immigrant. The recording also contains a brief segment of Buhle interviewing an unidentified woman who recounts a story of Finnish farmers being cheated by a land agent.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Timo Puropudas

Paul Andreas Rasmussen, 1973-1974, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 23, CD: Rasmussen 1-10 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 76, Cassette: 198 A-I (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Rasmussen discusses his political background in the Illinois Socialist Party and Workers Alliance during the late 1920s/early 1930s, his activities within Socialist Party, the formation of the Socialist Workers Party, and expulsion from Socialist Workers Party in 1947.

Interview by Rich Klimmer.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 486 minutes in nine parts

Audio

Paul Andreas Rasmussen

Paul Andreas Rasmussen, Apr 3, 1984, inclusive

Box: 23, CD: Rasmussen 11-13 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 76, Cassette: 198 J-L (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of Rasmussen's political background in Illinois, the Socialist Party and Workers Alliance during the late 1920s through early 1930s, activities within Socialist Party and formation of Socialist Workers Party, and expulsion from Socialist Workers Party in 1947. It also includes a discussion of the Communist Party and conflict between its working class and intellectual elements.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 168 minutes in three parts

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Paul Andreas Rasmussen

Paul Andreas Rasmussen, 1971, inclusive

Box: 23, CD: Rasmussen 14-28 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 76, Cassette: 198 M-Y (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Autobiographical narrative.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

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Paul Andreas Rasmussen

George Rawick, Oct 4, 1984, inclusive

Box: 76, Cassette: 199 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 23, CD: Rawick 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Rawick's family background, his adolescence in Brooklyn, experience around the Young Communist League and the Henry Wallace movement during the late 1940s, expulsion and attraction to the Shachtmanite movement, his activities during the 1950s, and the influence of the Shachtmanites on the New Left.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

George Rawick

Philip Raymond, Oct 22, 1982, inclusive

Box: 23, CD: Raymond 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 76, Cassette: 200 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the Auto Workers Union during the 1920s through the early 1930s, the political scene in Detroit, and the ethnic communities of auto workers.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Philip Raymond

Rose Raynes, Mar 21, 1979, inclusive

Box: 23, CD: Raynes 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 76, Cassette: 201 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Raynes discusses the founding and activities of the Emma Larazus Federation and the International Workers Order during the 1930s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Rose Raynes

Ernie Reymer, Feb 16, 1978, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 404 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 23, CD: Reymer 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding International Workers Order.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

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Ernie Reymer

George and Al Ribak, Apr 1, 1967, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains the recollections of two long-time former Socialist Party activists, including a description of the activities of the Bridgeport, Connecticut Socialist Party from the 1910s-1940s;

Interview by Bruce Stave.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Harvey Richards, Nov 5, 1983, inclusive

Box: 76, Cassette: 203 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 23, CD: H. Richards 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers labor activity in the 1930s-1950s, radical film-making from early 1960s, early work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and use of film as educational/fundraising tool. Richard also discusses making films about destruction of redwood trees and the Bay Area Vietnam protest movement.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Harvey Richards

Paul Richards, Nov 15, 1983, inclusive

Box: 76, Cassette: 204 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 23, CD: P. Richards 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Richards discusses his Bay Area background and contrasts the multi-racial, working class Left of Oakland, California with the middle class, largely white community Madison, Wisconsin. He also covers his activities as an open Communist in Madison during the late 1960s, his departure from Communist Party, observations about student Left, reflections on life since.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The release form that Tamiment Library has for this interview does not include transfer of copyright. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from the narrator, Paul Richards. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting this individual.

Audio

Paul Richards

Minnie Rivkin, Apr 7, 1980, inclusive

Box: 76, Cassette: 205 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 23, CD: Rivkin 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Rivkin discusses the Yiddish Chorus and broader Yiddishkayt from the 1930s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Minnie Rivkin

Lester Rodney, Dec 29, 1981, inclusive

Box: 23, CD: Rodney 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 423 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Rodney discusses radicalism, sportswriting for the Daily Worker from the 1930s, and sports during the Cold War.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Lester Rodney

Amelia Romano, Dec 2, 1982, inclusive

Box: 23 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 426 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Romano's involvement in left-wing theater, particularly in the 1930s. Organizations discussed include the Group Theatre, the Federal Theatre, and the Theatre of Action.

Interview by Beth Friend.

Audio

Amelia Romano

I.A. Ronch, Apr 14, 1980, inclusive

Box: 76, Cassette: 207 A-F (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 23, CD: Ronch 1-5 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Ronch discusses political and cultural life in Allerton Avenue Coops in the Bronx from the 1920s-1950s, cultural life inside Yiddish-speaking sector of Communist Party, his role as leader of Jewish People's Chorus during the 1950s, and cultural and poetic activities in Los Angeles during the 1960s-1970s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

I.A. Ronch

Nina Rosenberg, Mar 14, 1983, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 23, CD: N. Rosenberg 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 76, Cassette: 208 A-D (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Rosenberg discusses the Yiddish cultural movement in Miami Beach from the 1940s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Nina Rosenberg

Sadie Rosenberg, Jan 11, 1979 - Jan 15, 1979, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 24, CD: S. Rosenberg 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 76, Cassette: 209 A-D (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Rosenberg discusses her youth and family life during the 1920s, the International Workers Order, the Trade Union Unity League, Young Communist League's activities in Brooklyn during the 1930s-1940s, the United Electrical Workers Local 427 at Solar Manufacturing Company in Bayonne, New Jersey during the 1940s.

Interview by Ruth F. Prago.

Audio

Sadie Rosenberg

Sadie Rosenberg, Oct 31, 1979, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 24, CD: Rosenberg 3-5 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, Cassette: 209 E-H (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Rosenberg discusses her family background and early life.

Interview by Ruth Prago.

Audio

Sadie Rosenberg

Paul Rosencrantz, Jan 15, 1981, inclusive

Box: 76, Cassette: 210 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 24, CD: Rosencrantz 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the Communist Party, the National Maritime Union, and factory organizing in New York and in Maine.

Interview by Bill Schecter.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 92 minutes

Audio

Paul Rozencrantz

Florence Rossi, Mar 17, 1982, inclusive

Box: 76, Cassette: 211 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 24, CD: Rossi 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the Hunter College Socialist Party and the broader Socialist Party during the 1930s.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Audio

Florence Rossi

Dan Rubel, Apr 12, 1976, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Rubel discusses activities at the Jefferson School of Social Science and the impact of the Cold War.

Interview by Debby Cohen.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Annette Rubenstein, Oct 17, 1976, inclusive

Box: 24, CD: Rubinstein 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 76, Cassette: 213 A-D (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Discussion of literary environment and cultural criticism in the 1930s. Topics include: Masses and Mainstream, the Jefferson School, Realism as dominant style, disagreements between writers and Communist Party, the Party's role in 1930s America, detective stories, and drama. Writers discussed include: Dashiell Hammet, Leane Zugsmith, Ernest Hemingway, Alfred Maltz, Howard Fast, Mike Gold, Richard Wright, and Meridel Le Sueur. The interview heavily focuses on the outlook and intellectual currents of the Left in the 1930s, and some contrasts with the New Left are examined.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Annette Rubenstein

Annette Rubenstein, Dec 18, 1980, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 76, Cassette: 214 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 24, CD: Rubinstein 4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Rubinstein's Long Island background and her political and union activities during the 1930s. These activites include the People's Mobilization, the American Labor Party, and day care and birth control informational campaigns. Rubinstein also discusses the School for Democracy and Jefferson School during the 1940s-1950s and the effects of McCarthyism.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Audio

Annette Rubenstein

Annette Rubenstein, 1981, inclusive

Box: 24, CD: Rubinstein 5 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, Cassette: 213 D (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Rubinstein describes joining the Communist Party, the activities of the American Labor Party activities, Mike Quill, the Jefferson School, leaving the Communist Party, and her life from the 1950s-1980s.

Interview by Richard Wormser.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Annette Rubenstein

Annette Rubenstein, Mar 9, 1993, inclusive

Box: 24, CD: Rubenstein 6 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 326 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding National Council of American-Soviet Friendship.

Audio

Annette Rubenstein

Joe Rudiak, Jun 28, 1983, inclusive

Box: 24, CD: Rudiak 1-5 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 76, Cassette: 215 A-D (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Rudiak describes life in small industrial-town Pennsylvania during the 1920s-1930s, his union activities and Left affiliation, electoral campaign and red-baiting during the 1930s, life in Pittsburgh, and work in fraternal societies.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Joe Rudiak

Joe Rudiak, Peter Muselin, and Bernard Luketich, Jun 29, 1983, inclusive

Box: 24, CD: Rudiak/Muselin/Luketich 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 76, Cassette: 215 D-E (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Nature and activity of the Croatian Fraternal Union, changes since the 1920s, the emergence of "progressive" leadership during the 1940s-1950s, and service to the membership. He also discusses the organization's insurance and cultural activities in 1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Joe Rudiak, Peter Muselin, and Bernard Luketich

Julia Ruuttila, Sep 7, 1972, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the Industrial Workers of the World in Oregon and Washington during the 1910s.

Interview by Tom Copeland.

Use Restrictions

Release form releases rights regarding use to the Minnesota Historical Society. Please contact Tamiment Library or the Minnesota Historical Society for more information.

Kirkpatrick Sale, Oct 8 - Oct 11, 1969, inclusive

Box: 76, Cassette: 217 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 24, CD: Sale 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording is comprised of Kirkpatrick Sale's daily reactions to the Days of Rage protests in Chicago during October of 1969, which included the Students for a Democratic Society, Weathermen, Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM), and Young Lords. Includes Sale's daily accounts, and segments from news reports that Sale recorded alongside his own interpretations of the events. Sale offers detailed descriptions of protester tactics and the clashes between protesters and the police.

Audio

Kirkpatrick Sale

William Santora, Jul 25, 1980, inclusive

Box: 24, CD: Santora 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 76, Cassette: 218 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Santora describes early life in Jersey City, work at Emerson Radio New York, United Electrical Workers staff members helping to organize Federal Telephone and Telegraph, experience at the Westinghouse Elevator Company in New Jersey, and influence of the Left.

Interview by Ruth Prago.

Audio

William Santora

Sophie Saroff, May 15, 1979, inclusive

Box: 24, CD: Saroff 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 77, Cassette: 220 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of Sophie Saroff's 80th birthday party.

Audio

Sophie Saroff

Sophie Saroff, Dec 14, 1979, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 219 A-E (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 24, CD: Saroff 5-9 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Saroff's family background in Russia, the 1905 Revolution in Russia, the Rand School of Social Science, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), Camp Unity, and the International Labor Defense during the 1930s.

Per Saroff's request, a portion of the interview, representing audio that was lost between transcription and donation to the Oral History of the American Left, is read from the transcript.

Interview by Arthur Tobier.

General note

Transcript available, Box 2; Index available

Audio

Sophie Saroff

Finley Schaef, May 5, 1997, inclusive

Box: 25, CD: Schaef 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 428 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

This interview with Reverend Finley Schaef of the Park Slope United Methodist Church chronicles his role as a leader in various movements on the Left in the late 20th century. These include the Viet Nam War anti-war movement, the abortion rights movement, the civil rights movement, and support for revolutionaries in Cuba, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.

Interview by Janet Greene.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by creators. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holders. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Finley Schaef

Daniel Boone Schirmer, Mar 18, 1981, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 221 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 25, CD: Schirmer 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Topics covered include the National Students' League and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).

Interview by Bill Schecter.

Use Restrictions

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by D.B. Schirmer and Bill Schechter for this interview were transferred to New York University. Permission to publish or reproduce this interview must be secured from the Tamiment Library.

Direct quotations from this interview must be approved by D.B. Schirmer.

Audio

Daniel Boone Schirmer

Chaim Schwartz, Dec 29, 1981, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 223 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 25, CD: Chaim Schwartz 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Schwartz describes his activity as a Yiddish poet and Yiddish cultural circles from the 1930s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Chaim Schwartz

Charles Schwartz, Apr 21, 1984, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 222 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 25, CD: Charles Schwartz 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Schwartz's background in Fall River from the 1950s-1960s, his high school radicalization, life and politics in Madison, Wisconsin in the late 1960s, experiences being down and out in California, his return to New England, and his activities in Left from the 1970s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Charles Schwartz

Pete Seeger, Feb 25, 1981, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 224 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 25, CD: Seeger 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Seeger discusses the historical use of music as social protest, growing up in 1930s with folk music, the Communist Party song book, World War II, the blacklisting of artists during the 1950s, racism in America, and the Almanac Singers. Seeger performs songs at several junctures to illustrate his points, including union songs and a song about the Scottsboro Boys.

Interview by Richard Wormser.

Related Archival Materials

See also CD's Prago 18-20 for recordings of Pete Seeger's contribution to Albert Prago's lecture series on the Spanish Civil War.

Audio

Pete Seeger

Berl Segal, May 4, 1977, inclusive

Box: 25, CD: Berl Segal 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 77, Cassette: 225 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the Workmen's Circle in Providence, Rhode Island during the 1920s-40s, ethnic socialist groups in Providence, and the activities of the Socialist Party.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Berl Segal

Bernard Segal, Jul 14, 1992, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 412 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 25, CD: B. Segal 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Dorothy Fennel and Daniel Walkowitz.

Audio

Bernard Segal

Edith Segal, Feb 27, 1981, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 226 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 25, CD: E. Segal 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Segal discusses music and dance and the Left in the 1930s.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Audio

Edith Segal

Irving Seid, Jun 4, 1976, inclusive

Box: 25, CD: I. Seid 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 77, Cassette: 227 A (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Seid discusses his New York background, the Depression and Unemployed Councils, and the effects of McCarthyism.

interview by Danny Czistrom.

Audio

Irving Seid

Tauhma Seid, Jul 4, 1976, inclusive

Box: 25, CD: T. Seid 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 77, Cassette: 227 B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Seid discusses her youth in the Yorkville section of New York during the 1920s, cafeteria workers unionism, the Young Communist League, and the Communist Party during the 1940s-1950s.

Interview by Danny Czitrom.

Audio

Tauhma Seid

Leo Seidlitz, Jul 20, 1983, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 229 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 25, CD: Seidlitz 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of Brooklyn College radical politics during the mid-1930s, Trotskyism during the late 1930s, the Workers Party during the 1940s, and the influence of Max Shachtman.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 115 minutes in two parts

Audio

Leo Seidlitz

Leo Seidlitz, Aug 22, 1983, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 232 B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 25, CD: Seidlitz 3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding Workers Party.

Interview by Allen Thompson.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. In release form, narrator granted third parties broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 73 minutes; Preservation note: drop outs at the beginning of each side

Audio

Leo Seidlitz

Les Sentinelles Oubliées: Eva and David Rosenberg and Jack and Erika Karan, Circa 1990, inclusive

Box: 25, CD: Les Sentinelles Oubliees 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 331 A-D (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interviews with the Rosenbergs and Karans, taken for a French documentery titled Les Sentinelles Oubliées by Frédéric Rossif. Interviewees discuss their lives as Communists in 20th century America.

Audio

Les Sentinelles Oubliées: Eva and David Rosenberg and Jack and Erika Karan

Nina Serrano, Nov 16, 1983, inclusive

Box: 25, CD: Serrano 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 77, Cassette: 230 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains Serrano's observations of middle-American culture as a Bohemian in Madison, Wisconsin during the in 1950s. She also discusses her recruitment into the Youth Labor League, her activities in the founding of the Peace Center, attendance at the Peace Festival in Moscow and travels in China, subsequent difficulty in school, Madison, and maintaining contact with friends from her time in Madison.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The release form that Tamiment Library has for this interview does not include transfer of copyright. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from the narrator, Nina Serrano. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting this individual.

Audio

Nina Serrano

Mark Sharron, May 5, 1983, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 231 A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 25, CD: Sharron 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers various aspects of the Workers Party, Trotskyism, Workers' Party, Max Shachtman, and the Shachtmanite movement during the 1930s-1950s.

Sharron discusses his travels with A.J. Muste through Holland and Paris in 1930s and a meeting with Leon Trostky in Norway. He also discusses his travels and experiences in Spain during Spanish Civil War and factionalism between different leftist elements, including the POUM, anarchists, and Stalinists. He details his interactions with POUM members and pro-Trotskyists and describes his arrest by anarchist leader on the Aragon front for affiliation with POUM. He also comments on the International Brigades, the Thalmanns, May Days, and reaction from others in the left when he returned to the United States.

He describes a visit with Trotsky and Raya Dunayevskaya at Trotsky's home in Mexico in 1938. He also describes different wings of thought regarding Russian question, including the Johnsonites, Cannonites, and Shactmanites.

Sharron then describes his service in Merchant Marine during World War II, and increasing involvement with the Workers Party. He analyzes the general outlook on on the Soviet Union during the second world war and impact on Workers Party politics in 1940s, particularly the San Francisco branch. He describes his travel to France after war and dissolution of marriage and analyzes the factions among the French Trotskyists.

Sharron also discusses his life from the 1950s, including engineering work in Morocco doing contract work for air force starting in 1951, the FBI monitoring of the left, reflections on friendship and relationships in left politics, and his second career in therapy. He also describes his falling out with Shachtman after Sharron went to FBI to renounce connections with Fourth International.

During the course of the interview, Bloom and Sharron refer to an earlier interview segment that the library no longer has record of.

Interview by Jonathan Bloom at Tamiment Library.

Audio

Mark Sharron

Mark Sharron, Aug 19, 1983, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 232 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 25, CD: Sharron 5-7 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Sharron's childhood in Russia and Brownsville, his relationship with his family, his education at the City College of New York, the activities of the Young Communist League, his involvement with Trotskyism, his experiences in Europe, the activities of the Workers Party, and World War II.

Interview by Allen Thompson.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. In release form, narrator granted third parties broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Mark Sharron, Nov 10, 1983, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 233 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 25, CD: Sharron 8-9 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Sharron's activity in the Trotskyist movement during the 1930s-1940s, Trotskyism and questions of international socialism, and the character of the Workers Party.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 46 minutes

Audio

Mark Sharron

John Shenton, Jun 20, 1967, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the Socialist Party in Bridgeport, Connecticut during the 1920s-1960s.

Interview by Bruce Stave.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Moishe Shik, Dec 27, 1982, inclusive

Box: 25, CD: Shik 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 77, Cassette: 234 (Material Type: Audio)

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 63 minutes

Audio

Moishe Shik

Anne Shore, May 12, 1982 - Jun 15, 1982, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 235 A-H (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 25, CD: Shore 1-8 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the Communist Party, the activities of the United Office and Professional Workers of America (UOPWA), picketing of the Nazi ship the Bremen, Shore's experiences in Detroit during the the 1940s, the Civil Rights Congress and Progressive Party in Los Angeles during the late 1940s through early 1950s, the effects of McCarthy period on the left, and Shore's work for Local 1199 (Hospital Workers) during the 1960s.

Interview by Priscilla Backman.

Audio

Anne Shore

Meyer Shticker, undated

Box: 10, Cassette: 405 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 25, CD: Shticker 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Meyer Shticker

Elias Shulman, Oct 19, 1982, inclusive

Box: 26, CD: Shulman 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 300 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Elias Shulman

Robert J. Silberstein and Howard Meyer, Jun 22, 1982, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 236A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 26, CD: Silberstein and Meyer 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities International Labor Defense and the National Lawyers Guild from the 1930s-1940s.

Interview by Ann Ginger.

Audio

Robert J. Silberstein and Howard Meyer

Madeline Simon, Nov 15, 2002, inclusive

Box: 26, CD: M. Simon 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 77, Cassette: 237.1 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains Simon's reminiscences on Camp Kinderland and a discussion of music and Yiddishkeit.

Interview by Daniel Weber.

Audio

Madeline Simon

Fanny Simon, Feb 12, 1982, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 237 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 26, CD: F. Simon 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the Socialist Party during the 1930s.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 103 minutes in two parts

Audio

Fanny Simon

Donald Slaiman, Dec 16, 1994, inclusive

Box: 26, CD: Slaiman 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 341 (Material Type: Audio)

Audio

Donald Slaiman

Jessie Taft Smith, Nov 19, 1981, inclusive

Box: 26, CD: Smith 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 77, Cassette: 238 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Smith's family background in Norwalk, Connecticut during the 1910s-1920s, the activities of the Young Communist League, the laundry workers' union, and Smith's social and political life in the 1930s.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Audio

Jessie Taft Smith

Richard Soble, Mar 31, 1983, inclusive

Box: 26, CD: Soble 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 77, Cassette: 239 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents radical legal work in Detroit during the 1960s-1970s (including "Red Squad" lawsuit) and a late 1960s rent strike.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Audio

Richard Soble

Socialist Labor Party, Mar 17, 1983, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 240 A-D (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 26, CD: Socialist Labor Party 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding Socialist Labor Party "South Slavonian" language federation during the 1920s-1950s in Detroit and Cleveland. Interviewees include John Brlas, Mary Petrovich-Brlas, Vito DeLisi, Mary Korach, and Matt Korach.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Socialist Labor Party

Southern Negro Youth Congress, Feb 6, 1984, inclusive

Box: 26, CD: SNYC 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 77, Cassette: 241 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Forum on the history of the Southern Negro Youth Congress featuring one-time SNYC activists Henry Winston, James Jackson, Grace Tillman Bassett, Esther Jackson, and Dorothy Burnham.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 120 minutes in two parts

Audio

Southern Negro Youth Congress

Spanish Civil War Poetry, Apr 8, 1980, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: data_value_missing_243a2f8cf606c6241c3945eb6aec3d5d (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 26, CD: 418 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Digital transfer of the the second side of the second cassette was not possible due to poor condition of the tape.

Audio

Spanish Civil War Poetry

Anton Srok, Jul 26, 1983, inclusive

Box: 26, CD: Srok 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 77, Cassette: 242 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the Srok's experiences in the Milwaukee Croatian Fraternal Union, 1930s-1980s and his labor activities in Milwaukee during 1930s. Srok also describes his experiences as an amateur Croatian-American actor in Milwaukee.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 71 minutes in two parts

Audio

Anton Srok

Sid Stein & Eugene Dennis, Dec 1957, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 325 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 26, CD: Stein 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Speech by Sid Stein from a debate with Eugene Dennis at CPUSA Executive Committee.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Sid Stein & Eugene Dennis

Charlotte Stern, May 7, 1979, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 330 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 26, CD: C. Stern 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 57 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding Stern's experiences as member of the executive board of Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee from 1944-1950. Second CD and cassette contains 2:56 of unrelated material on first track or side.

Interview by Dorothy Swanson.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Charlotte Stern

Sholem Stern, Sep 18, 1978, inclusive

Box: 26, CD: S. Stern 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 77, Cassette: 243 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Stern describes his experiences as a radical Yiddish writer and poet in Montreal and New York during the 1920s-1930s.

Interview by Paul Buhle

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 61 minutes

Audio

Sholem Stern

Sholem Stern, undated

Box: 10, Cassette: 406 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 26, CD: S. Stern 2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Discussion includes comments on Morgen Freiheit, Yiddishe Kultur, and other Yiddish literary outlets. Interview also includes discussion of prominent Yiddish writers and the relationship between literature, the Jewish left, and the Communist Party.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Sholem Stern

Morton Stavis, Dec 9, 1991 - Jan 21, 1992, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 314 A-D (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 26, CD: Stavis 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Topics discussed include Stavis' youth on the Lower East Side, education at City College and Columbia Law School, Social Security Administration, unionism and civil rights, working with Senator Wagner, the War Labor Board, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Carl and Anne Braden, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and civil rights cases. Two specific cases covered are the McSurley Case of 1967 (regarding civil rights activists in Pikeville, Kentucky) and Philippines Case of 1986 (regarding property in New York owned by the the Marcos family).

Interview by Alan Thomson.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator. In release form, narrator granted Tamiment Library broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Audio

Morton Stavis

Isidor Steuzert, Oct 27, 1982, inclusive

Box: 26, CD: Steuzert 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 77, Cassette: 244 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the Jewish Socialist Federation, the nature of American Communism, and the Lovestoneites.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 19 minutes

Audio

Isidor Steuzert

Chalmers Stewart, Jun 22, 1983, inclusive

Box: 26, CD: Stewart 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 382 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains Stewart's reflections on CLR James.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Chalmers Stewart

Chaim Suller, Jan 20, 1983, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 245 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 26, CD: Suller 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Suller describes his background in the Jewish progressive movement and discusses the problems of the Morgen Freiheit in the 1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 40 minutes

Audio

Chaim Suller

Elliot Sullivan Memorial Service, undated

Box: 8, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 10, CD: Sullivan 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 26, CD: Sullivan 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Speakers at this recorded memorial service include Sylvia Thompson, Madeline Lee Gilford, Ralph Elswain, Ruby Dee, Will Lee, Biff Liff, Jane Hoffman, Peter Seeger, and Norma Sullivan.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Arne Swabeck, Apr 7, 1975 - Nov 19, 1975, inclusive

Box: 77, Cassette: 246A-G (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 27, CD: Swabeck 1-51 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 78, Cassette: 246H-WW (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 28, CD: Swabeck 52-76 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Series of tapes recorded by John Shannon in the course of researching for an unpublished book. Topics covered in this extensive set of interviews include: childhood, travels, Communist activities, analysis of factional splits in the left from the 1920s onward, and reflections on the left at the time of the interview.

Interview by John Shannon.

Existence and Location of Originals

Original cassettes were donated to Columbia University's Oral History Research Office by John Shannon, and Columbia University also maintains a copy of the interview.

Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures

Digitization of this interview was not completed, due to the poor quality of the audio and size of the interview. Based on John Shannon's session notes for the interview, these issues likely date to the original recording. Cassettes 246A to 246OO have been digitized. Cassettes 246PP to 246WW have not been digitized.

To request an access copy of materials in the undigitized portion of this interview, please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A librarian will respond to you with further information.

Audio

Arne Swabeck

Arne Swabeck, Oct 23, 1982, inclusive

Box: 28, CD: Swabeck 77-78 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 77, Cassette: 246 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the Scandinavian Socialist Federation and press.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Arne Swabeck and Paul Buhle for this interview were transferred to New York University. Permission to publish or reproduce this interview must be secured from the Tamiment Library.

Researchers using this interview should be aware that Arne Swabeck made the following annotation on the release form for this interview: "Should anything I said during this interview appear to contradict my views as expressed at an earlier date, either written or oral, accept its earlier version to be the more accurate reflection of my views."

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 98 minutes in two parts

Audio

Arne Swabeck

A.O. Syrstad, Jan 5, 1978, inclusive

Box: 28, CD: Syrstad 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 78, Cassette: 247 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the Workers Party and the Independent Socialist League in Seattle, Washington during the 1940s-1950s.

Interview by Allen Thompson.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. In release form, narrator granted third parties broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 44 minutes

Audio

A.O. Syrstad

Loretta Szeliga, Dec 8, 1981, inclusive

Box: 28, CD: Szeliga 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 354 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Loretta Szeliga

Anna Taffler, Jan 5, 1978, inclusive

Box: 28, CD: Taffler 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 78, Cassette: 248A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Taffler discusses the activities of the unemployed councils in Brooklyn between 1930 and 1934.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Audio

Anna Taffler

Stephen Tendler, Oct 5, 1984, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 411 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 28, CD: Tendler 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Topics discussed include the activities of the Socialist Labor Party in Saint Louis from the 1930s-1960s, the Bulgarian Federation in Granite City, Illinois, and the reorganization of Section Saint Louis in 1979.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Stephen Tendler

Norman Thomas, 1960, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 39/40/41/42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains the reminiscences of Norman Thomas, the six-time Socialist Party candidate for President.

Interview by Harry Fleischman.

Norman Thomas, Nov 17, 1966, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 39/40/41/42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains Thomas' recollections of Jasper McLevy, the Socialist Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1933-1957.

Interview by Bruce Stave.

Norman Thomas 1932 Campaign, 50th Anniversary, Nov 19, 1982 - Nov 20, 1982, inclusive

Box: 28, CD: Thomas Campaign 1-6 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 78, Cassette: 251 A-F (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

This recording of a reunion includes speakers Ruth Senior, Mickey Most, Herb Wolfe, John Herling, Noah Walter, and Michael Harrington. Speakers share their recollections of Thomas' first presidential campaign and discuss his career and influence overall.

Use Restrictions

REVISIT: Has signed release form, but may not be from necessary contributor. More like deed of gift? May actually pertain to OH 025 or OH 053.

Audio

Norman Thomas 1932 Campaign, 50th Anniversary

Debate between Norman Thomas and Barry Goldwater, 1961, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 414 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 28, CD: Thomas and Goldwater 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Debate between Norman Thomas and Barry Goldwater

Bessie Thomashow, undated

Box: 28, CD: Thomasow 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 78, Cassette: 253 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the Workmen's Circle during the 1930s.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Audio

Bessie Thomashow

Fred Thompson, Apr 1983, inclusive

Box: 28, CD: Thompson 3-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 78, Cassette: 255 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding the activities of the International Workers of the World after 1924.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 89 minutes

Audio

Fred Thompson

Fred Thompson, Jul 26, 1983, inclusive

Box: 28, CD: Thompson 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 8, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 78, Cassette: 254 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes an analysis of the nature of the language federations attached to Industrial Workers of the World, descriptions of prominent immigrant figures in IWW, and commentary on the eclipse of the language federations and ethnic press in the IWW.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Fred Thompson and Paul Buhle for this interview were transferred to New York University. Permission to publish or reproduce this interview must be secured from the Tamiment Library.

This interview is not to be transcribed without the permission of Fred Thompson.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 87 minutes in two parts

Audio

Fred Thompson

Alan Thomson, Feb 11, 1993, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 327 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 28, CD: Thomson 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding National Council of American-Soviet Friendship.

Interview by Stacy Sewell.

Audio

Alan Thomson

Ahrne Thorne, Dec 15, 1983, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 28, CD: Thorne 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 78, Cassette: 256 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Thorne's background in Poland, his education as an anarchist, Yiddish anarchism in the United States since the 1920s, the relationship between Yiddish anarchism and Zionism, and Thorne's recollections of Rudolf Rocker.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Ahrne Thorne

Ahrne Thorne, undated

Box: 10, Cassette: 407 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 28, CD: Thorne 3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Ahrne Thorne

Frank Trager, Nov 21, 1973, inclusive

Box: 28, CD: Trager 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 338 (Material Type: Audio)

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 98 minutes

Audio

Frank Trager

Haunani-Kay Trask, undated

Box: 28, CD: Trask 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 303 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Joy Shimabukuro

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Haunani-Kay Trask

Jerry Trauber, Nov 4, 1979, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 408 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 28, CD: Trauber 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Jerry Trauber

Esther Travaglio, Oct 30, 1982, inclusive

Box: 78, Cassette: 257 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 29, CD: Travaglio 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the background and activities of Esther Hartz Travaglio. It also covers the activities of "Gene" Travaglio, an anarchist and job-printer in Seattle and California.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 73 minutes in two parts

Audio

Esther Travaglio

Jean Tussey, Oct 24, 1978 - Oct 25, 1978 , Mar 20, 1979, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 46/47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 29, CD: Tussey 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 78, Cassette: 259 A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Tussey's activities with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, the Socialist Party, and the Socialist Workers Party in New Jersey and Southern California from the 1930s through the early 1940s.

Interview by Debra Bernhardt and Jon Bloom.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 111 minutes in two parts; Preservation Note: The third audiocassette could not be digitized due to its condition.

Audio

Jean Tussey

Uhro Tuominen, Nov 5, 1983, inclusive

Box: 78, Cassette: 258 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 29, CD: Tuuominen 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the "younger" generation of Finnish-American radicals in Midwest and California. Tuominen describes of the tenacity and decline of Finnish-American activity in Bay Area and the effort of Communist and non-Communist Finnish-Americans to engage in common functions.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 64 minutes; Preservation note: Poor audio quality

Audio

Uhro Tuominen

Gus Tyler, Oct 29, 1973, inclusive

Box: 80, Cassette: 339 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 29, CD: Tyler 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 78 minutes in two parts

Audio

Gus Tyler

Tyomies Panel Discussion, Jul 30, 1983, inclusive

Box: 29, CD: Tyomies 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 78, Cassette: 260 (Material Type: Audio)

Language of Materials

Recording is primarily in English, with some Finnish.

Scope and Content Note

Panel discussion including Mary Kolehmainen, Helen Kruth, Ernest Koski and other prominent editorial workers on the origins, development, and continuation of Finnish-language newspaper Tyomies (The Worker) and its sister paper Naisten Viiri (Women's Banner). Presentation includes history of paper, government intimidation of newspaper, achievements of Finnish-American press and people, the decline of the circulation, and the development of cooperative movements.

Discussion recorded by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Tyomies Panel Discussion

Unemployed Organizations of the 1930s, Apr 30, 1983, inclusive

Box: 29, CD: Unemployed Organizations 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 78, Cassette: 261 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

A recording of a session of a 1983 New York State Labor History Association meeting. Includes a presentation by Roy Rosenzweig, followed by panel discussion with Saul Parker, John Gates, Rose Schuyler, and Brendan Sexton.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Unemployed Organizations of the 1930s

Unidentified Yiddish-language Poet (originally from Ukraine), Mar 21, 1979, inclusive

Box: 29, CD: Unidentified Poet 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 10, Cassette: 390 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Narrator speaks about youth in Ukraine and Romania, introduction to poetry, influences (including Russian, Native American, African American, and Roma poetry), his books Flowers in the Snow and Eternally Green, the influence of Marxism on his poetry, and Moshe Nadir.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Unidentified Yiddish-language Poet (originally from Ukraine)

Willard Uphaus and Ruth MacLennan, Jul 20, 1983, inclusive

Box: 29, CD: Uphaus 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 304 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the lives of Willard and Ruth MacLennan Uphaus, with a special emphasis on their activities in the 1930s. Topics include their meeting, the intersection of their politics and Christianity, their friendship with Claude Williams, and Socialism.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Willard Uphaus and Ruth MacLennan

Willard Uphaus, Nov 9, 1980, inclusive

Box: 29, CD: Uphaus 3-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 262 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of Willard Uphaus' 90th birthday celebration, by Bea Lemisch.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Willard Uphaus

Vittorio Vidali, Aug 6, 1981, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the Italian Language Federation and the American Communist movement during the 1920s, Chicago and the Left, and Vidali's reflections on American Communism. Translated from the Italian-language Autobiography of Vittorio Vidali, a document on his years in the United States from 1923 to 1927.

Abraham Vishnu & Getzel Becker, Oct 25, 1978, inclusive

Box: 29, CD: Vishnu & Becker 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 264 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English and Yiddish.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents radicalism and culture in New York and Miami Beach, anti-Semitism in the radical movements of Poland, life for Jewish workers in pre-revolutionary Cuba, and the importance of Yiddish culture for political movements from the 1920s-1950s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 124 minutes in two parts; Preservation note: Poor audio quality

Audio

Abraham Vishnu & Getzel Becker

Jacob Waisbord, Jun 28, 1993, inclusive

Box: 29, CD: Waisbord 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 340 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding the Left Poale Zion and the Jewish Labor Committee.

Interview by Gail Malmgreen.

Audio

Jacob Waisbord

Hershel Walker, undated

Box: 29, Cassette: Walker 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 80, Cassette: 356-357 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Hershel Walker

Frank Wallin, Jul 31, 1983, inclusive

Box: 79, Cassette: 266 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 29, CD: Wallin 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Wallin's editorial activities from the 1940s-1970s for the Finnish-language paper Tyomies and Industrilistii,, a Finnish-American newspaper affiliated with the International Workers of the World (IWW).

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Frank Wallin

Albert Warner, May 4-5, 1980, inclusive

Box: 79, Cassette: 305 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 29, CD: Warner 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Beth Haskell.

Audio

Albert Warner

Susan Warren - Transcript, Apr 17, 1966, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy and the Jefferson School of Social Science during the 1950s.

Interview by Debby Cohen.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Arthur Waskow, Apr 2, 1970, inclusive

Box: 29, CD: Waskow 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 276 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview describes activities and internal politics of Students for a Democratic Society. Waskow reflects on its eventual dissolution.

Interview by Kirkpatrick Sale.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 89 minutes

Audio

Arthur Waskow

Mary-Alice Waters, undated

Box: 29, CD: Waters 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 267 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

A recording of Mary-Alice Waters' speech titled "Women's Liberation and the Socialist Revolution."

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Mary-Alice Waters

Stan Weir, Dec 28, 1981, inclusive

Box: 79, Cassette: 269 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 29, CD: Weir 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview document's Weir's experiences in Los Angeles.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Stan Weir

Stan Weir, Aug 13, 1983 - Aug 15, 1983, inclusive

Box: 29, CD: Weir 5-14 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 269 E-J (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding Workers Party.

Interview by Allen Thompson.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. In release form, narrator granted third parties broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Audio

Stan Weir

Stan Weir, Oct 22, 1982, inclusive

Cassette: 269A-M (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 29, CD: Weir 3-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 269 C-D (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Weir's analyses of the activities of C.L.R. James, the Johnson-Forest Tendency, and the Workers Party.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Stan Weir

Myra Tanner Weiss, 1982, inclusive

Box: 79, Cassette: 270 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 29, CD: Weiss 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Weiss' family and educational background in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, the unemployed movement and Trotskyist movement during the 1930s-1940s, anti-fascist demonstrations, and her experiences as Socialist Workers Party candidate during the 1940s-1950s.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Audio

Myra Tanner Weiss

Louis Weiss, Mar 15, 1983, inclusive

Box: 10, Cassette: 384 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: L. Weiss 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of Weiss' emigration from Poland, his work as a dress presser, and activities of the The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU).

Interview also includes commentary from an unidentified woman and unidentified man. The woman speaks to her experience in different progressive and radical organizations during the 1930s-1940s, including the International Labor Defense, American Labor Party, and others.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Louis Weiss

Sam Weiss, Apr 8, 1980, inclusive

Box: 30, CD: S. Weiss 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 271 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the role of the Freie Arbeter Shtimme (Free Voice of Labor) in the labor movement of the 1920s-1930s and describes activities of anarchists within the Arbeter Ring (Workmens' Circle).

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Sam Weiss

Saul Wellman - Transcript, Aug 24, 1972, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the Communist Party during the 1930s-1950s, Wellman's reflections on the relationship between the Communist Party and unions, Communists and United Auto Workers during the Second World War, reactions to the Hitler-Stalin Pact, and the Left's activities during the Cold War.

Interview by Roger Keeran.

Saul Wellman: 65th birthday dinner, 1980, inclusive

Box: 79, Cassette: 273 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: Wellman dinner 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 144 minutes in two parts

Audio

Saul Wellman: 65th birthday dinner

Yvette West, Jan 19, 1983, inclusive

Box: 30, CD: West 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 275 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers West's family dynamics growing up, her youth in the International Workers of the World (IWW) during the mid-1930s, and the literary career of her father, Yiddish critic B. Rivkin.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Yvette West

Ed Wiese, Apr 24, 1981, inclusive

Box: 79, Cassette: 274 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: Wiese 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Wiese's work in the Westinghouse Elevator Plant in Jersey City and the influence of the left. It also documents his time as president of Local 456 of the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE).

Interview by Ruth Prago.

Audio

Ed Wiese

Jim Williams, Apr 2, 1970, inclusive

Box: 30, CD: Williams 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 276 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding the internal politics and activities of Students for a Democratic Society on campuses across the United States. Williams also comments on reasons for the SDS split and the different Marxist factions in the New Left.

Interview by Kirkpatrick Sale.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Jim Williams

Paul W. Williams - Transcript, May 11, 1976, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the prosecution of International Workers' Order during the 1950s.

Interview by Howard Brown.

Tim Wohlforth - Transcript, Aug 29, 1976, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Wohlforth's background in Bridgeport, Connecticut during the 1930s-1940s and Socialism and Trotskyism during the 1950s.

Interview by Douglas Cooper.

Alice Dodge Wolfson, Apr 1, 1982, inclusive

Box: 79, Cassette: 279 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: Wolfson 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 9, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the League for Industrial Democracy, the Office Workers Union, the New England CIO, and the Socialist Party during the 1930s.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Audio

Alice Dodge Wolfson

Workers Party/Standing Fast Conference, May 6, 1983 - May 7, 1983, inclusive

Box: 30, CD: Workers Party 1-8 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 280 A-H (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of an event commemorating the opening of the Max Shachtman Papers at the Tamiment Library. Panel presentations on 1) the character and activities of the Workers Party, 1940-49 2) Harvey Swados' novel Standing Fast, based on the WP, and 3) three magazines with roots in the WP, Politics, Dissent, and New Politics. Speakers include Herman Benson, Ricky Flanders, Albert Glotzer, Julius Jacobson, Irving Sanes, Morton Clurman, Paul Cowan, Lewis Coser, Robert Cummings, and Phyllis Jacobson.

Audio

Workers Party/Standing Fast Conference

Frederick Wright, Jun 20, 1984, inclusive

Box: 30, CD: Wright 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 9, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 79, Cassette: 281 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Wright describes the background of his family and his grandfather's influence on his drawing, his work as a clip-joint musician during the 1920s, going to sea during the 1930s, his work as freelance cartoonist for National Maritime Union (NMU), the Cold War, and his work for the UE News.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

General note

Transcript available, Box 2

Audio

Frederick Wright

Fannie Yellin, Apr 16, 1980, inclusive

Box: 79, Cassette: 282 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: Yellin 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Yellin describes the anarchist circle in Philadelphia during the 1910s, the personality and ideas of Rudolf Rocker, and the role of the Rocker Circle in Los Angeles in publishing Rocker's work and facilitating his speaking tours.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Fannie Yellin

Karl Yoneda, Jan 7, 1983, inclusive

Box: 30, CD: Yoneda 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 9, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 79, Cassette: 283 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the Japanese-American Communist movement in the 1920s-1930s, the Japanese-language press in the 1920s and early 1930s, sectarian errors, cultural events, role in labor movement and opposition to the concentration camps that incarcerated Japanese-Americans during World War II, the Popular Front in the Japanese-American Left, and the state of Asian-American labor in the 1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Audio

Karl Yoneda

Vincent Young, Aug 4, 1983, inclusive

Box: 79, Cassette: 284 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: Young 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Discussion includes Young's youth in New York during the 1920s-1930s, his involvement in a black masonic lodge, and the activities of the Congress of Radical Equality (CORE) in Brooklyn during the 1940s-1960s. Other topics include the Downstate Medical Center, New York World's Fair demonstrations, and housing issues in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

Interview by Howard August.

Audio

Vincent Young

Mary Zackheim, Oct 24, 1978, inclusive

Box: 79, Cassette: 285 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: Mary Zackheim 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes stories about Moshe Nadir and other Jewish literary personalities, Zackheim's philosophies on life, and Zackheim's thoughts on the Communist Party. Second portion of interview is not not Mary Zackheim. It is an unidentified man speaking about Communist Party involvement in a strike.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 30 minutes in two parts

Audio

Mary Zackheim

Meyer Zackheim, Oct 24, 1978, inclusive

Box: 79, Cassette: 286.5 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: Meyer Zackheim 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the New York Left in the 1910s-1920s and the problems of the Jewish progressive movement in Miami Beach in the 1970s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 17 minutes

Audio

Meyer Zackheim

Meyer Zackheim, Abe Glassman, Florence Glassman, Ben Kliger, and Rosenfeld, Oct 24, 1978, inclusive

Box: 30, CD: Zackheim, Glassmans, Klieger & Rosenfeld 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 286 (Material Type: Audio)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English and Yiddish.

Scope and Content Note

This group interview, taken in Miami Beach, Florida, collects members' recollections of the progressive Jewish cultural movement in the 1920s-1940s. Topics discussed include how narrators became involved in the movement, trade union activism (especially in the needle trades), strikes, the Workmen's Circle, the Morgen Freiheit, Jewish theatre, music and theatre clubs, and factional divisions on the left.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form from all narrators. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the Tamiment Library and certain narrators. Please contact the Tamiment Library for more information.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 63 minutes

Audio

Meyer Zackheim, Abe Glassman, Florence Glassman, Ben Kliger, and Rosenfeld

Meyer Zackheim, Archie Rothenberg & Rose Lipshitz, Oct 24, 1978, inclusive

Box: 79, Cassette: 287.5 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: Zackheim, Rothenberg & Lipshitz 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English and Yiddish.

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding the relationship of culture and the Jewish progressive movement. Rose Lipshitz discusses the challenges of immigrant women in America of 1920s and the appeal of the Left. Archie Rothenberg discusses political activities of Jewish Left in 1920s-1930s. Additional topics covered include lectures, union activism in garment and millinery trades, women's roles in trade union and Left political organizations, the Bund and labor activities in Poland, the destruction of Eastern European Jewish communities during the Holocaust, and Yidisher Kultur Farband (YKUF) reading circles.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form from all narrators. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the Tamiment Library and certain narrators. Please contact the Tamiment Library for more information.

Audio

Meyer Zackheim, Archie Rothenberg & Rose Lipshitz

Meyer Zackheim, Ed Weiss, Julius Silver, and Sylvia Silver, Oct 24, 1978, inclusive

Box: 30, CD: Zackheim, Weiss & Silvers 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 287 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English and Yiddish.

Scope and Content Note

Group interview concerning the relationship of Jewish culture and left movements in the first decades of the twentieth century. Topics include immigration following the 1905 Russian Revolution, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), needle trade strikes, the founding of the Yidisher Kultur Farband (YKUF), political orientations within YKUF, the Morgen Freiheit, the role of women in the YKUF and garment unions, Jewish choruses, the concentration of left activities in Chicago in the early twentieth century, German-American socialist organizations compared with Jewish organizations, the Communist Party's relationship with culture, and the Soviet Union. Group likely also contains Mary Zackheim.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form from all narrators. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the Tamiment Library and certain narrators. Please contact the Tamiment Library for more information.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 124 minutes over two parts

Audio

Meyer Zackheim, Ed Weiss, Julius Silver, and Sylvia Silver

Joseph Zawadowski, Jul 28, 1983, inclusive

Box: 30, CD: Zawadowski 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 288 A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the Polish-American Left in Chicago from the time of his father (1920s) to the 1980s and Zawadowski's own experiences in the Spanish Civil War.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 124 minutes in two parts

Audio

Joseph Zawadowski

Steve Zeluck, Dec 15, 1982, inclusive

Box: 30, CD: Zeluck 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 79, Cassette: 289 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the Johnson-Forest Tendency, Trotskyism in Philadephia and Chicago, and Zeluck's reflections on C.L.R. James.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 63 minutes

Audio

Steve Zeluck

Steve Zeluck, undated

Box: 10, Cassette: 410 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: Zeluck 2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the Johnson-Forest Tendency, CLR James, and the Socialist Workers Party.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Audio

Steve Zeluck

Charles Zimmerman, Oct 31, 1974, inclusive

Box: 30, CD: Zimmerman 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 290 A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 9, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and the struggle between left and right in the 1910s-1920s.

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Audio

Charles Zimmerman

Celia Lewis Zitron - Transcript, May 8, 1976, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the New York Teachers Union during the 1940s.

Interview by Glenn Goldstein.

Fred Zimring Interviews, 1976-1978, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

This series contains interviews conducted by Fred R. Zimring as part of the research for his doctoral dissertation, "McCarthyism, the Cold War, and Temple University: the Dismissal of Professor Barrows Dunham from Temple," completed in pursuit of his degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1982.

Arrangement

Master copies are housed in boxes 91 and 92. User copies are housed in boxes 73 and 74.

Existence and Location of Originals

These transcripts are copies from the Barrows Dunham-Fred Zimring Collection in the Conwellana-Templana Collection at Temple University Libraries.

Aptheker, Herbert, Jul 5, 1977

Box: 30, CD: Apetheker 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 73, audiocassette: 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 92, audiocassette: 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Audio

Aptheker, Herbert

Boudin, Leonard, Oct 16, 1976

Box: 30, CD: Boudin 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 73, audiocassette: 4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 92, audiocassette: 4 (Material Type: Audio)

Audio

Boudin, Leonard

Edelman, Arthur, Feb 4, 1977

Box: 30, CD: Edelman 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 73, audiocassette: 11 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 92, audiocassette: 11 (Material Type: Audio)

Audio

Edelman, Arthur

Huganir, George, September 21, 1976

Box: 92, audiocassette: 18D (Material Type: Audio)

LeRoy, Gaylord, Mar 12, 1977

Box: 30, CD: LeRoy 2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 74, audiocassette: 23A (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 92, audiocassette: 23A (Material Type: Audio)

Audio

LeRoy, Gaylord

LeRoy, Gaylord, Aug 15, 1976

Box: 30, CD: LeRoy 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 74, audiocassette: 23B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 92, audiocassette: 23B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Contents

Original cassette tape had sticky shed syndrome. Although the cassette was able to be digitized after baking, there are still transport squeaking noices heard in the files.

Audio

LeRoy, Gaylord

Reynold Hills Project Interviews, 1980-1981, inclusive

Historical/Biographical Note

Interviewees were members of a small colony in upstate New York, which grew from a club called Followers of the Trail. The colony was created by Eastern European Jewish garment workers as a hiking camp for physical exercise and political discussion.

Use Restrictions

Use of this material is subject to the approval of the interviewer, David Leviatin.

Filmmakers' Tapes and Transcripts

Seeing Red, 1978-1981, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

This subseries contains interviews contributing to a film on American Communism during the 1930s-1950s by Julia Reichert and James Klein of Heartland Productions.

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, 1976-1979, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

These interviews were largely taken between 1976-1977 to contribute to a film about women production workers during World War II by Connie Field of Clarity Productions.

A Crime to Fit the Punishment, 1975-1981, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

Interviews from the film A Crime Fit to the Punishment by Barbara Moss and Steve Mack of Moss Productions regarding the making of a film regarding the making of the ealier film Salt of the Earth in 1953-1954.

Chacon, Juan

Box: 72, audiocassette: 46 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: Chacon 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Audio

Chacon, Juan

Chacon, Virginia & Angie Sanchez, May 21, 1976

Box: 72, audiocassette: 47A, 47B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: Chacon/Sanchez 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Audio

Chacon, Virginia & Angie Sanchez

Jencks, Clint, Feb 15, 1975

Box: 72, audiocassette: 49A, 49B, 49C, 49D (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: Jencks 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Audio

Jencks, Clint

Jencks, Clint & Juan Chacon

Box: 72, audiocassette: 50A-50B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: Jencks/Chacon 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Audio

Jencks, Clint & Juan Chacon

Scherwin, Jules, November 11, 1975

Box: 72, audiocassette: 52A, 52B, 52A (copy), 52B (copy) (Material Type: Audio)

Scherwin, Jules, April 9, 1981

Box: 72, audiocassette: 53A, 53B, 53C (Material Type: Audio)

Williams, Henrietta, May 21, 1976

Box: 72, audiocassette: 54A, 54B (Material Type: Audio)

Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet, 1976-1979, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

This subseries contains interviews supporting a film by John Miller of City Crisis Film Group regarding the political and social effects of the mid-1970s urban budget crises in New York and Cleveland.

Anarchism in America, 1967-1981, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

Interviews supporting the documentary Anarchism in America by Joel Sucher and Steve Fischler of Pacific Street Films regarding the history and character of anarchism.

Free Voice of Labor, 1976-1979, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

Interviews supporting the documentary Free Voice of Labor by Joel Sucher and Steve Fischler of Pacific Street Films regarding the Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper Freie Arbeter Stimme (Free Voice of Labor), published from the 1880s-1970s.

Trouble on Fashion Avenue, 1981, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

Interviews supporting the documentary Trouble on Fasion Avenue by Claude Beller of TV Documentary Arts Projects, Inc. Interviewees speak about the history of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and radicalism within the union.

The Case of the Legless Veteran: James Kutcher, 1977, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

Interviews supporting the documentary The Case of the Legless Veteran: James Kutcher by Howard Petrick regarding the legal battles of James Kutcher, a World War II veteran from whom the United States government attempted to deny benefits due to his affiliation with the Socialist Workers Party.

Peekskill Work in Progress, 1979-1980, inclusive

Location of Materials

User copies can be found in boxes 82 and 85; Master copies can be found in box 83

Scope and Content Note

This subseries contains interviews taken by Barbara Kopple of Cabin Creek Films.

Patterson, Bill and Louise, January 10, 1979

Audio

Box: 75, audiocassette: cuid43077A (Material Type: Audio)
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 75 minutes; Preservation Note: Side 2 is blank.

Audio
Patterson, Bill and Louise

Audio

Box: 75, audiocassette: cuid43077B (Material Type: Audio)
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 75 minutes.

Audio
Patterson, Bill and Louise

Danis, Sid, October 8, 1979

Box: 75, audiocassette: 3 (Material Type: Audio)

Marcus, Heshie, April 27, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 5 (Material Type: Audio)

Silverman, Sol, undated

Box: 75, audiocassette: 8A (Material Type: Audio)

Tarantel, Al, January 24, 1979

Box: 85, audiocassette: 10 (Material Type: Audio)

Ferris, Mr. and Mrs. Richard, undated, inclusive

Box: 85, audiocassette: 13B (Material Type: Audio)

Naylor, Colin, 1979

Box: 85, audiocassette: 14 (Material Type: Audio)

Tuttle, Jack, October 23, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 85, audiocassette: 18 (Material Type: Audio)

Walsh, John, 1979

Box: 85, audiocassette: 19 (Material Type: Audio)

Hambro, Lee, November 11, 1979

Box: 85, audiocassette: 20 (Material Type: Audio)

Hayes, Lee, undated, inclusive

Box: 85, audiocassette: 21A, 21B, 21C (Material Type: Audio)

Seeger, Pete and Toshi, January 24, 1979

Box: 85, audiocassette: 24A, 24B (Material Type: Audio)

Silber, Sylvia, December 2, 1972

Box: 85, audiocassette: 25 (Material Type: Audio)

Language of Materials

English.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Preservation note: Poor audio quality

Audio

Silber, Sylvia

Silber, Irwin, February 23, undated, inclusive

Box: 85, audiocassette: 26 (Material Type: Audio)

Language of Materials

English.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Preservation note: Poor audio quality

Audio

Silber, Irwin

Brown, Lloyd, April 5, 1979

Box: 85, audiocassette: 27B (Material Type: Audio)

Foner, Henry, April 4, 1979

Box: 85, audiocassette: 28 (Material Type: Audio)

Foner, Phil, undated, inclusive

Box: 85, audiocassette: 29A, 29B, 29C (Material Type: Audio)

Naison, Mark, undated, inclusive

Box: 85, audiocassette: 30A, 30C (Material Type: Audio)

Siegel, Jeff, February 16, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 85, audiocassette: 32A (Material Type: Audio)

Tabb, Bill, March 15, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 85, audiocassette: 33A, 33B (Material Type: Audio)

Ward, Doug, January 16, 1979

Box: 30, CD: cuid1052 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 85, audiocassette: 34 (Material Type: Audio)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Origial Format: 1/8" Audiocassette, Duration: 20 min.

Audio

Ward, Doug

Tapley, Mel, January 16, 1979

Box: 85, audiocassette: 50 (Material Type: Audio)

Backer, Leon et al, July 5, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 85, audiocassette: 51B (Material Type: Audio)

Shines, Ralph, January 16, 1980

Box: 75, audiocassette: 39 (Material Type: Audio)

Levey, Herbert, July 22, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 42 (Material Type: Audio)

Levey, Herbert, January 15, 1979

Box: 75, audiocassette: 42 (Material Type: Audio)

Mercadel, Kevin, Feb 27, 1979

case: Audio Cabinet 1, Drawer 1, Cassette: cuid1053 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 30, CD: cuid1053 (Material Type: Audio)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Original Format: 1/8" audiocassette, Duration: 57 min.

Audio

Mercadel, Kevin

Cook, Marvel, January 9, 1980

Box: 75, audiocassette: 44 (Material Type: Audio)

Hicks, James, March 9, 1979

Box: 75, audiocassette: 45 (Material Type: Audio)

Lapolla, Ray, undated, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 46 (Material Type: Audio)

Moscow, Warren, undated, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 47 (Material Type: Audio)

Rowe, Billy, 1979-05-02

Box: 75, audiocassette: 48 (Material Type: Audio)

Stolley, Richard, 1979-1980, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 49 (Material Type: Audio)

Eisner, Norman, April 26, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 52 (Material Type: Audio)

Goldstein, Burt, May 5, 1979

Box: 75, audiocassette: 54 (Material Type: Audio)

Lubell, Dave, undated, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 57 (Material Type: Audio)

Marcus, Sidney, July 10, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 58, 58B (Material Type: Audio)

Neuchow, Bill and Taylor, January 9, 1979

Box: 75, audiocassette: 60A (Material Type: Audio)

Goodman, George et al, August 29, 1979

Box: 75, audiocassette: 61 (Material Type: Audio)

Baker, Sarah T., undated, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 64 (Material Type: Audio)

DeSantos, Lou and wife, undated, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 67A, 67B (Material Type: Audio)

Glassberg, Bert, undated, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 68 (Material Type: Audio)

Hersh, Ben, December 30, 1979

Box: 75, audiocassette: 69A, 69B (Material Type: Audio)

Hobson, Frances, June 8, 1979

Box: 75, audiocassette: 70 (Material Type: Audio)

Jamison, Willis, undated, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 71 (Material Type: Audio)

Kroph, Norman, 1979

Box: 75, audiocassette: 72 (Material Type: Audio)

Levenson, Gene, undated, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 73 (Material Type: Audio)

Overstreet, Fred, October 23, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 74A, 74B (Material Type: Audio)

Poritzky, Ben, October 21, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 75, audiocassette: 76 (Material Type: Audio)

Rick, Chester R., August 3, 1979

Box: 82, audiocassette: 78 (Material Type: Audio)

Smith, Coleman, undated, inclusive

Box: 82, audiocassette: 81 (Material Type: Audio)

Baker, Fred, December 20, 1979

Box: 82, audiocassette: 85A, 85B, 85C (Material Type: Audio)

Bauman, Irma and Marty, March 22, 1979

Box: 82, audiocassette: 86 (Material Type: Audio)

Eisenberg, Alex, undated, inclusive

Box: 82, audiocassette: 87 (Material Type: Audio)

Fine, Danny and June Fisher, 1979

Box: 82, audiocassette: 88A, 88a, 88a (Material Type: Audio)

Payne, Anita, May 5, 1979

Box: 82, audiocassette: 89 (Material Type: Audio)

Lynn, Conrad, February 11, 1980

Box: 82, audiocassette: 90A, 90B (Material Type: Audio)

Brody, Pauline, October 23, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 82, audiocassette: 94A, 94B (Material Type: Audio)

Cohen, Abe, undated, inclusive

Box: 82, audiocassette: 95 (Material Type: Audio)

Colman, Abbie and Morris, undated, inclusive

Box: 82, audiocassette: 96 (Material Type: Audio)

Feinstein, Allan and Mary, January 11, 1979

Box: 82, audiocassette: 97 (Material Type: Audio)

Ford, Calvin, May 8, 1979

Box: 82, audiocassette: 98 (Material Type: Audio)

Horn, Nora, May 13, 1979

Box: 82, audiocassette: 99 (Material Type: Audio)

Levenson, Yasha and Flo, undated, inclusive

Box: 82, audiocassette: 102 (Material Type: Audio)

Reibman, Svi, undated, inclusive

Box: 82, audiocassette: 104 (Material Type: Audio)

Rock, Pauline, undated, inclusive

Box: 82, audiocassette: 105 (Material Type: Audio)

Rossman, Barbara, undated, inclusive

Box: 82, audiocassette: 106 (Material Type: Audio)

Schwartz, Goldie and Walter, 1979

Box: 82, audiocassette: 109A, 109B (Material Type: Audio)

Shappes, Morris, undated, inclusive

Box: 82, audiocassette: 111 (Material Type: Audio)

Steck, Bob, undated, inclusive

Box: 82, audiocassette: 112 (Material Type: Audio)

Froman, Jay, undated, inclusive

Box: 82, audiocassette: 113 (Material Type: Audio)

Salzberg, Norman and Dan, undated, inclusive

Box: 82, audiocassette: 114A, 114B (Material Type: Audio)

Herwill, Claire, 1979

Box: 82, audiocassette: 115A, 115B, 115C, 115D (Material Type: Audio)

Sverdlow, Amy, undated, inclusive

Box: 82, audiocassette: 116 (Material Type: Audio)

Schwartz, Tony, undated, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 117 (Material Type: Audio)

Hock, Lumis V., undated, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 118 (Material Type: Audio)

Hunter, Bernie, September 17, 1979

Box: 84, audiocassette: 119 (Material Type: Audio)

Scivoletto, John, October 27, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 120 (Material Type: Audio)

Franrovitch, Alan, undated, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 122 (Material Type: Audio)

Kaufman, Dr. Maurice, September 3, 1980

Box: 84, audiocassette: 123A, 123B (Material Type: Audio)

Slochower, Dr., March 19, 1979

Box: 84, audiocassette: 124A, 124B (Material Type: Audio)

Script Meeting, November 1, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 125A, 125B (Material Type: Audio)

Script Meeting, March 7,1979

Box: 84, audiocassette: 125C (Material Type: Audio)

Script Meeting, 1979-03-19

Box: 84, audiocassette: 125D, 125E, 125F, 125G, 125H, 125I (Material Type: Audio)

Script Meeting, February 26, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 125J (Material Type: Audio)

Script Meeting, undated, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 125L (Material Type: Audio)

Script Meeting, February 22, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 125M (Material Type: Audio)

Script Meeting, January 30, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 125N (Material Type: Audio)

Script Meeting, January 23, 1980

Box: 84, audiocassette: 125O, 125P, 125Q (Material Type: Audio)

Script Meeting, April 9, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 125R (Material Type: Audio)

Resnick, Ephraim, June 28, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 126 (Material Type: Audio)

Peery, Nelson, 1980-08-20

Box: 84, audiocassette: 127A (Material Type: Audio)

Shields, Art, undated, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 128 (Material Type: Audio)

Unidentified, undated, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 130 (Material Type: Audio)

Unidentified, undated, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 131 (Material Type: Audio)

Moliti, Vito, February 18, 1980

Box: 84, audiocassette: 132 (Material Type: Audio)

Fischer, Steven, September 17, 1979 or 1980, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 133 (Material Type: Audio)

Kopple, Barbara (and Misc), undated, inclusive

Box: 84, audiocassette: 135 (Material Type: Audio)

Columbia Student Strike of 1968, undated

Scope and Content Note

This subseries contains eight interviews regarding the 1968 student strike at Columbia University.

Transcripts of Completed Films, undated

Scope and Content Note

This subseries contains transcripts of three completed films: Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle by Paul Wagner, With Babies and Bannners by Lorraine Gray, and The Wobblies by Deborah Shaffer and Stewart Bird.

Tamiment Institute Tapes, circa 1955-1965, inclusive

Location of Materials

Most materials in this series are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu at least two business days prior to research visit. An access copy of the Anna Strunsky Walling interview is available at Bobst.; Master copies can be found in box 89; User copies can be found in box 83

Scope and Content Note

This series contains a collection of tapes held by the Tamiment Institute that predated the establishment of the Oral History of the American Left. These tapes include recordings of meetings, speeches, panel discussions, and interviews recorded during the 1950s-1960s.

"Memorial Meeting" Brazier, Dick, et al., November 18, 1960

Box: 89, audiocassette: 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 83, audiocassette: 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D (Material Type: Audio)

Judge Jacob Panken, Jun 21, 1960

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 83, audiocassette: 2 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 89, audiocassette: 2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording regarding Meyer London.

A. Philip Randolph, undated, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a speech.

Access audiocassette

Box: 83, audiocassette: 3 (Material Type: Audio)

Master audiocassette

Box: 89, audiocassette: 3 (Material Type: Audio)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 16 minutes

Audio

Master audiocassette

Open reel audio

Box: 42 (Material Type: Audio)

Upton Sinclair, Oct 15, 1958, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 83, audiocassette: 4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 89, audiocassette: 4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Speech at a League for Industrial Democracy Meeting.

Trachtenberg, undated, inclusive

Box: 83, audiocassette: 5 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 89, audiocassette: 5 (Material Type: Audio)

Bertram Wolfe, Jul 12, 1960, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 83, audiocassette: 6 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 89, audiocassette: 6 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a speech titled "Has the Soviet Union Changed?"

Tamiment Discussion with the Children of Norman Thomas, 1959, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 83, audiocassette: 7A, 7B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 89, audiocassette: 7A, 7B (Material Type: Audio)

Harry Fleischman regarding Norman Thomas, Apr 23, 1964, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 83, audiocassette: 8 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 89, audiocassette: 8 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Harry Fleischman on Norman Thomas: A Biography.

Norman Thomas, 1964, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 83, audiocassette: 9A, 9B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 89, audiocassette: 9A, 9B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of Speech titled "The Politics of Peace."

Norman Thomas, Nov 14, 1956, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 83, audiocassette: 10 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 89, audiocassette: 10 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a speech.

Clarence and Ruth Senior on Norman Thomas, Feb 4, 1962, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 83, audiocassette: 11 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 89, audiocassette: 11 (Material Type: Audio)

Anna Strunsky Walling, Jun 27, 1960 and Jul 19, 1960, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 25, CD: Walling 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 83, audiocassette: 12A, 12B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 89, audiocassette: 12A, 12B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

This interview was originally taken as part of a Tamiment Institute oral history series.

Interview by Melvin Drimmer and Melvyn Dubofsky.

Audio

Anna Strunsky Walling

Industrial Workers of the World, Apr 11, 1959, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 83, audiocassette: 13A, 13B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 89, audiocassette: 13A, 13B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Tamiment Institute discussion, including a memorial meeting featuring speakers Dick Brazier, Herbert Mahler, and Sam Weiner.

Industrial Workers of the World Finances and Decline, unidentified IWW REp., undated, inclusive

Box: 83, audiocassette: 14 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 89, audiocassette: 14 (Material Type: Audio)

Frank Bohn, Mar 1958, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Recording regarding the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World from 1900-1920, and the church and socialism.

Call Association, undated

Box: 55, reel: cuid1604A, cuid1604B, cuid1604C (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
E-records: tamwag_oh002, E-records: cuid1604A, cuid1604B, cuid1604C (Material Type: electronic records)

Extent

3 sound tape reels

Dimensions

1/4"

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 1/4" open reel audio, Duration: 45 min.

Audio

Call Association

Max Shactman, Dec 31, 1966, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a speech titled "The Social Development of Communism."

Antonin Souchy, Feb 29, 1960, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sam Weiner, 1962, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Recording regarding the Industrial Workers of the World from a WCKR Broadcast.

Aleine Austin Tapes regarding Monthly Review and Highlander Folk School, 1979-1982, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

This series contains recordings of interviews by Aleine Austin and an event regarding the history of the Monthly Review.

Scope and Contents

Master copies can be found in box 88 and 92

Historical/Biographical Note

The Tennessee-based Highlander Folk School was founded in 1932 to provide education to activist leaders.

Monthly Review is a socialist magazine founded in 1949.

Magdoff, Ortiz, Sweezy, undated, inclusive

Box: 88, audiocassette: 1A, 1B, 1A (user), 1B (user) (Material Type: Audio)

Horton, Myles, August 18-24, 1982, inclusive

Box: 88, audiocassette: 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F, 2A (user), 2B (user), 2C (user), 2D (user), 2E (user), 2F (user) (Material Type: Audio)

Horton, Magdoff, Ortiz, Sweezy, June 28, 1983

Box: 88, audiocassette: 3, 3 (user) (Material Type: Audio)

Former Harvard Student, December 10, 1980

Box: 88, audiocassette: 4, 4 (user) (Material Type: Audio)

Sweezy, Paul, October 23, 1983

Box: 88, audiocassette: 5, 5 (user) (Material Type: Audio)

Edelman, Harburg, May, December 7, 1980

Box: 88, audiocassette: 6, 6 (user) (Material Type: Audio)

Monthly Review 30th Anniversary, May 1979

Box: 88, audiocassette: 7A, 7B, 7A (user), 7B (user) (Material Type: Audio)

Austin, Aleine, undated, inclusive

Box: 88, audiocassette: 8A, 8B, 8C, 8A (user), 8B (user), 8C (user) (Material Type: Audio)

Restricted Interviews in Oral History of the American Left, 1976-1983, inclusive

Location of Materials

user copies can be found in boxes 90 and 91; Master copies can be found in box 90

Scope and Content Note

This series contains interviews collected for the Oral History of the American Left that were accepted by the repository as closed, generally for a certain amount of years. The majority of these restrictions are no longer in effect. Upon expiration of restrictions, interviews have been moved to Series I.

Conditions Governing Access

Access to interviews in this series is restricted. Interviews for which restrictions have expired have been moved to Series 1. Specific information on the restrictions is available at the interview level. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu for more information.

Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen, Nov. 7, 1983

Box: Series 7 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 90, audiocassette: 6A, 6B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 91, audiocassette: 1, 2, 2B (Material Type: Audio)

Access Restrictions

Interview is closed, except with the permission of the interviewees.

Charlotte Stern, 1976, inclusive

Box: Series 7 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 90, audiocassette: 7A-7M (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 91, audiocassette: 1A, 1B, 2, 3A, 3B, 4B, 4D, 5B, 6 (Material Type: Audio)

Access Restrictions

Interview is closed.

Interviews by Alan Wald, 1976-1981, inclusive

Box: Series 7 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 90, audiocassette: 1-4, 8A-11B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interviews by Alan Wald on the history of Trotskyism and intellectuals in the United States. Interviewees include Michael Blankfort (Jul 22, 1981), James T. Farrell (May 23, 1976), Leslie Fiedler (May 28, 1981), Nathan Glazer (May 25, 1981), Walter Goldwater (May 10, 1981), and Stan Weir (Sep 26, 1980 and Jul 21, 1981).

Access Restrictions

Interview is closed.

Higley Hill, 2009, inclusive

Box: 47, CD: Higley Hill (Material Type: Audio)

Rose Leopold, 2008, inclusive

Box: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 47, CD: Rose Leopold (Material Type: Audio)

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Radio Free Maine tapes, 1994-05-13-1994-05-14, inclusive

Box: 81, Cassette: 2-4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: