Oral history interview with Murray Cotterill. [manuscript]. 1967.

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Oral history interview with Murray Cotterill. [manuscript]. 1967.

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Murray Cotterill's interview focuses mainly on the organization of Canadian steel workers and the general role of the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Canada. He provides a detailed account of the Stelco Strike of 1946, and states his opinions about the activities of the communists in the Canadian movement. In addition, he emphasizes the importance that the directors of the Canadian organizing efforts played in forming public opinion and the efficacy of influencing public opinion in support of a labor organizing drive. He also provides insights into the administrative set up of the United Steelworkers of America in Canada and Canadian attitudes on the union's general structure.

Transcript : 37 leaves.Sound recordings : 2 sound cassettes (120 min.).

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The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) was established 22 May 1942, by a convention of representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers (AAISTW) and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) after an intensive organizing initiative by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s. After mergers in 2005, it was renamed United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW...

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Public Relations Director, United Steelworkers of America, Toronto, Canada. From the description of Oral history interview with Murray Cotterill. [manuscript]. 1967. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 316815525 ...

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