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Reminiscences of John W. Edelman, 1957

Creator: Edelman, John W., 1893-1971
Project: Individual interviews oral history collection.
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Phys. Desc. :transcript 247 pages
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Labor representative

Scope and Contents

Education; early experiences on fringes of Socialist movement; condition of hosiery workers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania during the late 1920 and the Depression: role of hosiery workers union in the American Federation of Labor; AFL conventions; beginnings of Textile Workers Union of America; its role in the Congress of Industrial Organizations; influence of Communist Party in the CIO; merger of the CIO and the AFL; impressions of men and women prominent in the labor movement

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975

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