Oral history interview with Anthony Barbieri, Dominick Ferro, and Thomas Fivey. [manuscript]. 1967.

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Oral history interview with Anthony Barbieri, Dominick Ferro, and Thomas Fivey. [manuscript]. 1967.

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These interviews, comprised of discussions with Anthony Barbieri, Dominick Ferro and Thomas Fivey, focus primarily on union organization at the American Locomovie Plant in Schenectady, New York. Mr. Fivey's interview (7 minutes) covers various techniques used by foremen to intimidate plant workers as well as the problems of union security and membership maintenance. Mr. Ferro's interview (9 minutes) centers around his experiences in the plant's blacksmith shop: the working conditions at the time, and employee reaction to early union organization. Mr. Barbieri's interview (51 minutes) focuses on company resistance to one industrial union, namely the United Steelworkers of America, which kept the plant factionalized into separate craft locals. He discusses craft division within the union's bargaining units, the impact of the USWA's McDonald administration, and his position as a union official at the American Car and Foundry Plant in Berwick, Pennsylvania.

Transcript : 45 leaves.Sound recordings : 2 sound cassettes (120 min.).

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