Oral history interview with Floyd Piper in Des Moines, Iowa, 1978 April 27 [microform] / conducted by Paul Kelso.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Oral history interview with Floyd Piper in Des Moines, Iowa, 1978 April 27 [microform] / conducted by Paul Kelso.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46401503

Piper talks about his role as a non-Communist organizer in the Communist influenced International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers. Of particular interest is his discussion of the coordinated withdrawal of Iowa locals from the IUMMSW in the mid 1940s because of the Communist issue. The Iowa locals eventually ended up in the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America.

Transcript: 60 leaves ; 28 cm.

Iowa State Historical Society

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7564580

Iowa State Historical Society

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w41mc1 (corporateBody)

The International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers (IUMMSW) emerged in 1916 from the more radical Western Federation of Miners (WFM) which organized mine and copper industry workers. IUMMSW reasserted its presence in the western mines, most successfully during the five-month strike in Butte and Anaconda (Montana) in 1934. A founding member of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), the IUMMSW was expelled in 1950 because of the Union's perceived Communist ties. In 1967, the IUMMS...

Piper, Floyd, 1899-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69s53d2 (person)

Kelso, Paul, 1937-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63x8dwq (person)