Oral history interviews with Frank Coyle, 1973 November 5 and 11.

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Oral history interviews with Frank Coyle, 1973 November 5 and 11.

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In the first interview, Frank Coyle reminisces about his home neighborhood of Wissahickon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the domination of one man, Percival Roberts; job hazards; ethnic intermingling; and non-union climate. He talks extensively of the effect of the 1929 Depression on the working-class people in his community. In the second interview, Coyle again discusses the Depression and his own survival through a succession of jobs, his involvement after joining the Biscuit Workers Union, and the seventeen-week strike during the hard winter of 1935. He discusses the Philadelphia Joint Union Labor Council, a conglomeration of AFL unions that were industrial in character. In the late 1930s, Coyle got involved in organizing steelworkers, textile workers, and was also involved in the Farmer-Labor Party. He reflects on the changing nature of the labor movement during the late 1930s and the early 1940s and how it affected his own thinking as an individual. There is also a ten-page transcript of a speech by Coyle about the importance of Community Service Committees.

Sound recordings: 3 sound cassettes (ca. 3 hrs.)Transcripts: 16, 44 leaves.

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Roberts, Percival R. (Percival Rudolph), 1935-

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Born in the 1935 in Delaware, Roberts attained his bachelor's and master's degree at the University of Delaware and he attained his doctorate at Illinois State. Delaware's ninth poet laureate, Roberts wrote seven books of poetry and many articles on aesthetics and art education. He became the chairman of the Art department of Bloomsburg State College in 1968. He succumbed to cancer in 1984 at the age of 48. From the guide to the Percival R. Roberts papers, R...

Hoffman, Alice M., 1929-

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Alice M. Hoffman, labor historian, labor educator, and oral historian was associate professor of labor studies at King of Prussia, Penn State in the 1970s. She supervised and conducted numerous oral history interviews as director of the Labor Oral History Project, served as an officer with the Oral History Association (1974 to 1976) and the Pennsylvania Labor History Society (ongoing), and joined Bryn Mawr College after retiring from Penn State. From the description of Alice M. Hoffm...

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Biscuit Workers Union.

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Coyle, Frank (Francis Joseph), 1904-

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Coyle serves on the Executive Board, National Council of Senior Citizens. From the description of Oral history interviews with Frank Coyle, 1973 November 5 and 11. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 31484954 ...