Joseph Jacobs oral history interview, 1991 Mar. 6.

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Joseph Jacobs oral history interview, 1991 Mar. 6.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477477

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Joseph Jacobs on March 6, 1991 in which he discusses the Depression in Atlanta (Ga.); Worker's Alliance; attempt to organize the Works Projects Administration; the Angelo Herndon case; Civilian Conservation Corps; Max Zaritsky; National Industrial Relations Act (The Blue Eagle); representation of unions; Standard Hat plant; "The Vulture's Nest"; negotiations and organization in lady garment worker's industry; quotas in garment industry; teacher's unions; David Dubinsky; Congress of Industrial Organizations; American Federation of Labor; granite cutters; steel workers; Butch Hathaway; Southern Bed Spring Company; Saul Klenburg plant; Dalton (Ga.) tufted-fabric manufacture; union activity in Dalton; Carl Karston; Allie Mann; prominent union leaders in Atlanta (Ga.); J. Allen Couch; Cates family; Mary Barker; Maude Ireland; listing of local unions; Eva Galambos; Bill Green and the AFL-CIO; and John Lewis of the United Mine Workers.

3 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (79 p.)

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 7404193

Georgia State University

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