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Interview, 1967 October 27.

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A transcript (68 leaves, typewritten, photocopy) of a tape recorded interview between Samuel Swanson, a labor leader of Ely, Minnesota, and Jack Spiese. The interview was conducted under the auspices of the Oral History Project of the Department of Labor Studies, Pennsylvania State University. It gives details of Swanson's birth and early life in Chicago, his migration to Clearwater County, Minnesota in 1911, his work in the North Dakota wheat fields, and his return to Northern Minnesota, where he first worked in lumber camps and later in the iron mines.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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