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Melvyn Aaronson, Apr 2, 1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 5, Cassette: 1A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, CD: 1A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Irving Adler, Jul 10, 1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 5, Cassette: 2A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, CD: 2A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include Unemployed Teachers Assoication, trade unionism history, and the NLB.

George Altomare, Aug 1985 and Aug 1995, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 5, Cassette: 3A-B, 56A-E (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, CD: 3A-B, 56A-E (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include Teachers Guild in 1950s and the UFT in 1960.

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 Bailey, Dec 30, 1985, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 4A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, CD: 4A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include merger, UFT organizing, and the 1962 election

Yetta Barsh, Nov 21, 1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 5, Cassette: 5A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, CD: 5A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Discussion of the UFT in late 1960s-1980s.

Simon Beagle, Dec 1982 - Aug 1985, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 5, Cassette: 6A-E (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, CD: 6A-E (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include socialism, the UFT and Vietnam, John Dewey, the American Federation of Teachers, and the Communist Party.

Scope and Contents

Some static heard occaisionally throughout

Mayor Abraham Beame, Oct 28, 1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 5, Cassette: 7 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, CD: 7 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include budget office during the 1940s-60s, strike, fiscal budget, mayoralty, and the labor movies of the 1980s.

Sanford Blair, Apr 4, 1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 5, Cassette: 8A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, CD: 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include collective bargaining, Al Shanker, picketing, organizing the UFT, and democracy.

Eugene Blum, Mar 25, 1986, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 9A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, CD: 9A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include colleagues' resistance to organizing and Al Shanker.

Charles Cogen, Jul 9, 1985 - Oct 26, 1986, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 10 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, CD: 10A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include Communist opposition, presidencies, collective bargaining, AFT history, strike, and merger.

Conditions Governing Access

Access to this interview is restricted.

Rita Cohen, Apr 17, 1991, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 60A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, CD: 60A-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.

Colby, Jun 27, 1989, inclusive

Box: 5, Cassette: 58A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, CD: 58A-C (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.

Ben Davidson, Aug 19-20, 1985, inclusive

Box: 3, CD: 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 11A-G (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include criticism of Linville-Lefkowitz group, union relation to larger community, and the executive director of Liberal Party.

Jeannette DiLorenzo, Oct 19, 1985, inclusive

Box: 6, Cassette: 12A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, CD: 12A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include the Teachers Guild's evolution and strike, bargaining coalition, and the evolution of the UFT.

Nathan Fein, Oct 21, 1985, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 6, Cassette: 13A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, CD: 13A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include socialism, Communism, restructuring the union in 1935, David Selden, and Al Shanker

George Fesko, Feb 27, 1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 6, Cassette: 52A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, CD: 52A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include teaching, strikes, decentralization, and the UFT financial crisis of the 1970s.

Ray Frankel, Feb 17, 1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 6, Cassette: 14A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, CD: 14A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include organizing the Teachers Guild, the UFT's origins, and strike efficacy.

Samuel Friedman, Jan 6, 1987, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 6, Cassette: 15A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, CD: 15A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Friedman discusses his life as a socialist.

Tess Gloster, Sep 26, 1986, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 6, Cassette: 16A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include socialism, elitism, and grievances.

August Gold, Jul 11, 1985, inclusive

Box: 6, Cassette: 17A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, CD: 17A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include organizing the Teachers Guild and the UFT and socialism.

Edward Gottlieb, Feb 1986 - Mar 1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 6, Cassette: 18A-E (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, CD: 18A-E (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include the Linville administration, the Great Depression, militant activities in the 1940s, collective bargaining, and integration.

Louis Gregory, Feb 13, 1986, inclusive

Box: 6, Cassette: 19 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, CD: 19 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of Jamaica Evening High strike.

Allen Griggs, May 23, 1986, inclusive

Box: 6, Cassette: 20 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, CD: 20 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include collective bargaining and grievance activity.

John Hagan, Feb 19, 1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 6, Cassette: 21 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, CD: 21 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of Teachers Guild in the 1950s.

Louis Hay, Oct 31 - Nov 1, 1985, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 1, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 6, Cassette: 34A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include socialism, Communism, democratization committee, and consulting work.

Velma Hill, Jun 1986 - Nov 1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, CD: 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 22A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include integration, Congress of Racial Equality, and the Career Ladder Program.

Ponsie Hillman, Feb 25, 1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, CD: ref23 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 6, Cassette: 23A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include segregation, World War II, and joining the UFT.

Hy Hirsch, May 28, 1986, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 1, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Tamiment 106, Cassette: 24 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 3, CD: 24A (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include socialism in 1920s, factionalism, the progressive caucus, the Dewey Commission, the CIO, and militancy in the 1950s.

Sidney Hook, Oct 17, 1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include Communism in UFT and Dewey.

Solomon Jaffe, Nov 9, 1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 7, Cassette: 26A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include collective bargaining, Al Shanker, and the Special Education Program.

Interview with Steve Cole.

Benjamin Kaplan, Jan 27, 1986, inclusive

Box: 7, Cassette: 27 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, CD: 27 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include eligibles committee and collective bargaining.

Israel Kugler, Nov 1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 7, Cassette: 28A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include socialism, community college movement, and collective bargaining.

Abe Levine, Dec 24, 1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 7, Cassette: 29A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, CD: 29A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include 1950s generation and organization.

Sol Levine, Feb 18, 1986, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 7, Cassette: 54A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, CD: 54A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include UFT organization, caucus, politics, and CAR.

Martin Lobenthal, Jul 16, 1985, inclusive

Box: 7, Cassette: 30 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, CD: 30 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include the Teachers Guild and the UFT from 1947 to 1971.

Rubin Maloff, Jan 30, 1986, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 7, Cassette: 31A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, CD: 31A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include organizing the Teachers Guild, Communists in school, "business union," and bargaining.

Jack Mandel, Oct 11 and Oct 18, 1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 7, Cassette: 32A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, CD: 32A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include teaching during the 1940s through 1950s, salary, collective bargaining, strike, and supervising the in union.

Alice Marsh, July 5, 1985, inclusive

Box: 7, Cassette: 33A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, CD: 33A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include activities from 1939 to 1960 and paraprofessionals.

Fred Nauman, Mar 24, 1986 - Apr 1, 1986, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include joining union during the 1950s, decentralization, demonstration districts, and Ocean Hill-Brownsville.

John O'Neill, Oct 27, 1985, inclusive

Box: Shared Tamiment 106, Cassette: 35 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, CD: 35A (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include organizing in the 1960s, Vietnam, and paraprofessionals.

Roger Parente, Aug 22, 1985, inclusive

Box: 7, Cassette: 36A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, CD: 36A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include the High School Teachers Association, a 1959 strike, and merger.

Milton Pincus, Apr 7, 1986, inclusive

Box: 7, Cassette: 37A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, CD: 37A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include the Teachers Guild in the 1950s, merger, and bargaining.

Larry Robbins, Mar 28, 1986, inclusive

Box: 7, Cassette: 38A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, CD: 38A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include the creation of the UFT, merger, goals, and strikes.

Bayard Rustin, Oct 29, 1985, inclusive

Box: 4, CD: 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 7, Cassette: 39 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include socialism, Communism and unions, assimilation, and paraprofessionals.

Dan Sanders, Nov 15, 1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 7, Cassette: 40A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, CD: 40A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include organizing the Teachers Guild and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Strike

David Selden, Jun 29 1986 and Mar 19 1990, inclusive

Box: 7, Cassette: 55 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, CD: 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of UFT Event.

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.

Al Shanker, 1985, inclusive

Box: 7, Cassette: 59A-E (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, CD: 59A-E (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include new teachers' union negotiations and struggles with Board of Education.

Interview by Neil M. Cowan.

Scope and Contents

Audio on most of the access CDs has a muted/compressed sound which is often associated with multiple duplications. Tape #59E, which was transferred to CD #59E, had sticky shed syndrome and this defect has been carried over from the master to the access copy.

Use Restrictions

When these tapes are quoted or cited, Neil M. Cowan must receive full credit.

Morris Shapiro, Jun 12, 1986, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Tamiment 106, Cassette: 42A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, CD: 42A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Discussion includes comparison of the trade teacher versus the academic teacher.

Rose Shapiro, Aug 7, 1986, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, CD: 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: Shared Tamiment 106, Cassette: 43A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include socialism, the Parent Teachers Association, the United Parents Association, the Public Education Association, and Al Shanker.

Harold Siegel, Oct 11, 1986, inclusive

Box: Shared Tamiment 106, Cassette: 41A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, CD: 1 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include socialism, the United Parents Organization, and the Board of Education secretary.

Fanny Simon, Dec 25, 1985 - Jan 1, 1986, inclusive

Box: Shared Tamiment 106, Cassette: 44A-C (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, CD: 1-3 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include socialism, unionizing, Communism, radicalism during the Great Depression, Linville, the 1935 split of the Teachers Union and Teachers Guild, and AFT presidents.

Rebecca Simonson, Jun 1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, CD: 1-5 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: Shared Tamiment 106, Cassette: 45A-C (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include Communism during the 1950s, federal aid, segregation, and integration.

Adolf Stone, Dec 23, 1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Tamiment 106, Cassette: 46 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, CD: 46A (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include substitute teaching and union motivation.

Morris Sukenik, Jun 21, 1986, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Tamiment 106, Cassette: 47A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, CD: 1-2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include socialism, collective bargaining, and Al Shanker.

Robert Wagner, Nov 1986 - Dec 1986, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Tamiment 106, Cassette: 48A-D (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 4, CD: 48A-D (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include relationship with the Teachers Movement, Communist witch-hunt, trade union community, and the history of liberalism.

Samuel Wallach, Oct 17, 1986, inclusive

Box: Shared Tamiment 106, Cassette: 49A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, CD: 49A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include union activity during the 1930s, Wallach, and anti-Communist witch-hunts.

Sarah Wiener, Aug 20, 1986, inclusive

Box: Shared Tamiment 106, Cassette: 50A-B (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, CD: 50A-B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include Communism, decentralization, and the Retired Teachers Chapter.

Ella Wolfe, Aug 17, 1985, inclusive

Box: 4, CD: 1 (Material Type: Audio)
Box: 2, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Tamiment 106, Cassette: 51 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed include Communism, pacifism, and the Soviet Union.

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