Reminiscences of M. Hedley Stone : oral history, 1969.

Biographical Note

Labor leader.

Scope and Contents

Early experiences; International Seaman's Union; National Maritime Union: conditions of employment, hiring halls, injury cases, racial discrimination, dues collection, pensions; contrast between East and West Coast shipping; relations with International Longshoremen's Association; strikes in the 1930s; Congressional investigations; effects of National Recovery Administration; Wagner Act, New Deal; foreign flag ships; Communist Party and the unions; founding of Congress of Industrial Organizations, merger with American Federation of Labor; establishment of Political Action Committee-Congress of Industrial Organizations. Impressions of Joseph Curran, Harry Bridges, Walter Reuther, John L. Lewis.

Subjects

• AFL-CIO.
• International Longshoremen's Association.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• Labor unions and communism.
• Madow, Pauline, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Merchant mariners--Labor unions.
• National Maritime Union of America.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories.
• Stone, M. Hedley, 1897-1970.
• United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.

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