Interview, 1969 August 11.

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Interview, 1969 August 11.

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A transcript of an interview between Walter M. Frank and Lila M. Johnson and Donald Sofchalk. The interview contains information on Frank's participation in the labor union movement in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, particularly his efforts to obtain passage of social legislation. Frank discusses his membership and activities in the Industrial Workers of the World, the Lather's union, the American Federation of Labor, and the Minneapolis Building and Construction Trades Council; the IWW's program; labor efforts to obtain unemployment insurance; the movement in the 1930s to free Tom Mooney from prison; lack of support by labor leaders for social legislation and industrial unionism; and Frank's support of the Nonpartisan League and the Farmer-Labor Party.

63 leaves.

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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