Reminiscences of John Brophy : oral history, 1955.

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Reminiscences of John Brophy : oral history, 1955.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309728425

Family background and childhood; miners' organizations in England and United States before 1900; life of a typical miner; organizational work with United Mine Workers, Western Pennsylvania and Michigan, 1899-1917; struggles of United Mine Workers, 1899-1940; John L. Lewis; visits to England and Russia, 1927; United Mine Workers and American Federation of Labor, 1918-35; emergence of new Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1935-41; posts and activities with Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1935-41; relations of Congress of International Organizations and American Federation of Labor, 1935-55; national director, Industrial Union Councils, 1940-47; wartime labor relations boards, 1941-45; Philip Murray's Industrial Council Plan; opening conference, World Federation of Trade Unions and International Labour Office, 1945; International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 1949; comments on labor's view of socialism, the New Deal, Communists and the labor movement, the Department of Labor, future of the labor movement. Impressions of labor figures: William B. Wilson, Samuel Gompers, William Z. Foster, Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman, William Green, Walter Reuther, Lee Pressman, Frances Perkins, Maurice Tobin.

Transcript: 1,036 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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