Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of John Brophy, 1955.Biographical NoteLabor union official
Scope and ContentsFamily background and childhood; miners' organizations in England and United States before 1900; life of a typical miner; organizational work with United Mine Workers, Western Pennsylvania and Michigan, 1899-1917; struggles of United Mine Workers, 1899-1940; John L. Lewis; visits to England and Russia, 1927; United Mine Workers and American Federation of Labor, 1918-1935; emergence of new Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1935-1941; posts and activities with Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1935-1941; relations of Congress of International Organizations and American Federation of Labor, 1935-1955; national director, Industrial Union Councils, 1940-1947; wartime labor relations boards, 1941-1945; Philip Murray's Industrial Council Plan; opening conference, World Federation of Trade Unions and International Labour Office, 1945; International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 1949; comments on labor's view of socialism, the New Deal, Communists and the labor movement, the Department of Labor, future of the labor movement. Impressions of labor figures: William B. Wilson, Samuel Gompers, William Z. Foster, Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman, William Green, Walter Reuther, Lee Pressman, Frances Perkins, Maurice Tobin
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