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Clowes, Florence Waszkielewicz,. Oral history interview with Florence Waszkielewicz Clowes. [manuscript]. 1975.

Title: Oral history interview with Florence Waszkielewicz Clowes. [manuscript]. 1975.

In this interview, Florence and Dean Clowes, wife and son of Philip Clowes, discuss Mr. Philip Clowes' life and his dedication to the labor movement. They talk about Philip Clowes' full-time position as District Director for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where he started an intensive organizing campaign. The campaign's problems are briefly discussed, including company unions, ethnic differences, and the loss of the Little Steel Strike in 1937. The interview also covers Florence and Philips Clowes' direction of the Congress of Industrial Organizations' steel workers summer camp at Camp Davis and Raccoon Creek, Pennsylvania, and Philip Clowes' move to Canada, where, in Sydney, Nova Scotia, he negotiated the first union contract for that area.

ArchivalResource: Transcript : 34 leaves.Sound recordings : 2 sound cassettes (120 min.).

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Clowes, Florence Waszkielewicz. Folklore paper, 1976.

Title: Folklore paper, 1976.

Folklore collection, from Caratunk, Me..

ArchivalResource: 39 p.

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