Oral history interviews with Ralph Leavitt and others, 1972.

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Oral history interviews with Ralph Leavitt and others, 1972.

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Interviews, with brief catalog and transcript, from Orono, Orrington, and Rockland, Me., with Leavitt relating to labor history of Penobscot Chemical Fiber Company (tape too poor to transcribe); Ernest (Ted) Kimble on labor history of Maine bricklayers; and Theodore W. (Ted) Sylvester on at Bath Iron Works and the Rockland cement plants.

1 audiotape (3 1/2 hr.)

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History, Maine Folklife Center

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Bath Iron Works

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Leavitt, Ralph

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Ralph "Bud" Leavitt was born in Old Town in 1917. He began writing for the "Bangor Daily Commercial" in 1934. He served during World War II as a civilian employee for the Army Air Corps. In 1946, he joined the "Bangor Daily News" as a general sportswriter. He began his well known column in 1948 that continued until Nov. 30, 1994. In 1953, he began the "Bud Leavitt Show" on television that lasted until 1973. In 1979, Mr. Leavitt's "Woods and Waters" program first aired on PBS. He has appeared on ...

Penobscot Chemical Fiber Company

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Maine State Federated Labor Council

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The Maine State Federated Labor Council was founded in 1904 as the Maine State Federation of Labor, a branch of the American Federation of Labor. Its purpose was to better the conditions of the labor force and to fight such problems as child labor, poor working conditions and exploitation of women in the work force. In 1938 the AFL and the Maine State Federation saw the rise of a new rival, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). In 1956 the Maine state chapters of both the AFL and the C...

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Sylvester, Theodore W., 1932-

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