Reminiscences of Moe Foner, 1986-2001.

Biographical Note

Labor organizer

Scope and Contents

Childhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; family background; Brooklyn College B.A., 1936; first job at Gimbel's, 1930; full-time position at Registrar Office, City College, 1936; involvement with Young Communist League in Boro Park; active involvement in College Teacher's Union; anti-fascist association in mid-1930's; Nazi-Soviet Pact; formed the band, "Suspended Swing," 1941; joined the staff of Local 1250, 1947; a member of 1199 from 1952 until retirement in 1982; National Convention, 1957; first experience in filmmaking, THE 1199 STORY, 1957; "Harvest of Shame"; Montefiore, 1958; the hospital legislation; march on Washington, D.C., 1963; Beth-El Strike; Bronxville Strike, April, 1965; AFL-CIO Convention, 1967; First National Labor Conference against the war, Chicago, 1968; Charleston Strike, April, 1969; Executive of Bread and Roses since 1978; Executive Secretary of National Hospitals' Union, 1982-83; worked for the Local 342 in January, 1983; mergers of the unions, April, 1983; Dorris Turner Campaign, 1984; the hospital unions' strike on eve of the Democratic Party Convention, 1984. Bread and Roses 1986-2001 (Women of Hope project, exhibits, educational and outreach work); 1199's organization of home health-care workers (late 1980s); publications and public relations for unions; conflict in 1999 during 1980s; Unity in Progress to Save our Union campaign; Leon Davis' death and legacy; Dennis Rivera and 1199 in the year 2001; highlights of career, personal life. The primary version of this transcript was finalized by 2006 with editing that makes it different from the audio and the earlier 1989 version

Subjects

• AFL-CIO.
• Collective bargaining--Hospitals.
• Documentary films.
• Foner, Moe, 1915---Interviews.
• Germany. Treaties, etc. Soviet Union, 1939 August 23.
• Hospitals--Administration.
• Hospitals--Employees--Labor unions.
• Hospitals--Employees.
• Hospitals--Law and legislation.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• Labor unions--United States.
• Master, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• North, Dan, 1935- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Strikes and lockouts.
• Teachers' unions.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements.

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