La Follette Civil Liberties Committee project : oral history, 1963.

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La Follette Civil Liberties Committee project : oral history, 1963.

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These interviews deal with labor and civil liberties during the New Deal, with discussion of the roles of the National Labor Relations Board and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, anti-union practices in industry and agriculture, the functioning of the committee, and recollections of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (1895-1953). Participants and pagination: John J. Abt, 16; Gardner Jackson, 24; Carey McWilliams, 20; Luke Wilson, 28; Robert Wohlforth and Matthew Josephson, 75.

Transcripts: 163 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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