Oral history interviews with John Black, 1987.

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Oral history interviews with John Black, 1987.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31484788

Black discusses his early years growing up in Berlin, Germany, after World War I, his communist and Trotskyist beliefs and activities as a youth and adult, run-ins with the Nazis, and his eventual migration to the United States. Throughout the interviews Black discusses his relationship with the Socialist Workers Party and his split to join the Workers Party. He details his struggle to establish a national union for hospital workers beginning in Buffalo, New York, and including New York City, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and describes the strikes he led. He comments on Doris Turner's election as president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Local 1199 union in New York City.

Sound recordings: 8 sound cassettes (ca. 7 hrs.)Transcripts: 2 v. (29, 57, 60, 48 p.)

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