La Follette Civil Liberties Committee project : oral history, 1963.

Scope and Contents

These interviews deal with labor and civil liberties during the New Deal, with discussion of the roles of the National Labor Relations Board and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, anti-union practices in industry and agriculture, the functioning of the committee, and recollections of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (1895-1953). Participants and pagination: John J. Abt, 16; Gardner Jackson, 24; Carey McWilliams, 20; Luke Wilson, 28; Robert Wohlforth and Matthew Josephson, 75.

Subjects

• Civil rights--United States.
• Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
• Interviews.
• La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1895-1953.
• Labor laws and legislation.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. National Labor Relations Board.

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