Reminiscences of Heber Blankenhorn, 1955

Biographical Note

Labor researcher

Scope and Contents

Ohio childhood; Worcester College, Columbia University; New York SUN, early labor reporting; war research, leaflet warfare, World War I, Commission to Negotiate Peace, 1918; Bureau of Industrial Research, 1919-1921; Steel Strike Report; Cabot Fund report; coal strike, 1922; Sidney Hillman, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 1920; New York CALL LEADER; London correspondent, LABOR, 1926-1931; Italian anti-fascism; Dillon Reed Corporation analyst; Spanish Civil War, 1931-1933; National Industrial Recovery Act; National Labor Board, assistant to Senator Robert Wagner; passage of Wagner Act; investigation of industrial espionage; La Follette Committee

Subjects

• Blankenhorn, Heber, 1884-1956--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Journalism.
• Journalists--Interviews.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.
• Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. National Labor Board.
• World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1980