Walter P. Reuther library - Oral History Collection

THE 20th CENTURY TRADE UNION WOMAN: VEHICLE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

An oral history project of the Program on Women and Work, Institute of labor and Industrial Relations,
The University of Michigan and Wayne State University, 1970s.

Baker, Mary: Augusta Building Trades Council
Barron, Sara: ACWA
Callahan, Mary: IUE
Cohen, Sophie: IWW
Compton, Beulah: Waitresses' Union
Conroy, Catherine: CWA
Day, Clara: IBT*
DeLaCruz, Jessie: UFW
Dubrow, Evelyn: ILGWU
Elkuss, Mary Lawrence: ACWA
Fese, Marie: BRAC*
Fredgrant, Sara: ACWA
Gladstein,Caroline Decker: CAWIU*
Graham, Charlotte: ILGWU
Haener, Dorothy: UAW
Herstein, Lillian: AFT
Jeffrey, Mildred: UAW
Jones, Brownie Lee: ALES
Kemp, Maida Springer: ILGWU
Kennedy, Ola: USWA*
Kimmel, Elizabeth: ILGWU

Kraus, Dorothy and Henry: UAW
Levitas, Mollie: OPEIU
Lucia, Carmen: UHCMW
Lunsford, Minnie: UMW*
Luscomb, Florence: WTUL
Lynch, Florence: URW
Maietta, Julia: ACWA
Maupin, Joyce: Union WAGE
McElrath, Ah Quon: ILWU
McGill, Eula: ACWA*
Merrill, Barbara: ACTWU
Mount, Julia Luna: UCAPAWA*
Neal, Arline: SEIU
Neal, Fannie: AFL-CIO
Newman, Pauline: ILGWU
Nord, Elizabeth: TWUA
Norwood, Rose: WTUL*
Nussbaum, Karen: 9to5 *
Palmquist, Rose: IBT
Peterson, Esther: ACWA
Peterson, Florence: UAW

Peurala, Alice: USWA
Pincus, Celia: AFT *
Podojil, Antoinette: TWUA
Roberts, Geraldine: UDWA
Roberts, Lillian: AFSCME
Robinson, Dollie Lowther: ACWA
Scattergood, Margaret: AFL
Schwenkmeyer, Frieda: ACWA
Segal, Bonnie: ILGWU
Sullivan, Anna: TWUA
Sweet, Gertrude: HERE
Taylor, Pauline: Progressive Party
Thornburgh, Lucille: TWUA
Turner, Doris: 1199/SEIU
Urdaneta, Regina: ACWA
Ward, Angela Gizzi: OWU
Wertheimer, Barbara: educator
Wiencek, Ruth: CWA
Wooding Nelle: CWA

* Permission required from interviewee for any quotes, citations and/or utilization of material (see legal release).
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AFSCME ORAL HISTORIES

Joe Ames with John Greenya for Power to the Public Worker, co-authored
with Richard Billings, c. 1973
Roy Kubista with Philip P. Mason, 1982-83
William J. McEntee with Philip P. Mason, 1976
Dr. Joseph Mire with Philip P. Mason, 1976
No restrictions stipulated.
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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

AFT-sponsored series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1987 by Renee Epstein with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, first collective bargaining, first strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight, and Oceanhill-Brownsville.
The collection also includes an interview with four participants in the 1946 St. Paul Federation of Teachers strike, the first organized teachers’ strike in the United States, conducted in 1974 as part of the History of Minnesota Labor Project, and the interview with Albert Shanker—“New York Jews in Politics”— was conducted by Miriam Shore for the American Jewish Committee. This interview focuses on New York City politics during the 1970s.

Rose Claffey
Charles Cogen
Patrick Daly
Albert Shanker
David Elsila
John Fewkes
Catherine McGourty
Carl Megel
Robert Porter

Mary Ellen Riordan
Herrick Roth
David Selden
William Simmons
Rebecca Simonson
Mary and Charles Smith
St. Paul Teachers' Strike, 1946
Marjorie H. Stern
Raoul Teilhet

The Joseph Jablonower Collection, Series IV Box 8, contains a transcript of a series of interviews that where conducted by Columbia University in 1965.
No part of the transcript of the interview with Carl Megel may be used for publication. There are no other restrictions stipulated.
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W.M. "JACK" ANDERSON

Interview with Gene Lantz about Anderson's experiences as the first president of UAW Local 654 in Dallas, Texas, 1994.
No restrictions stipulated.

AUTO-LITE STRIKE ORAL HISTORIES

Interviews conducted by Philip A. Korth and others At Michigan State University as part of his research on the 1934 Auto-Lite strike in Toledo, Ohio, 1973.
No restrictions stipulated.
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BANCROFT LIBRARY/BERKELEY ORAL HISTORIES

Conducted a the University of California--Berkeley by Corrine Gilb, Willa Baum, and others from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Adrean Falk on the wholesale grocery business
Ernesto Galarza on the United Farm Workers
Mary Gallagher on the IWW and Tom Mooney
Elsie Martinez: San Francisco Bay Area Writers and Artists
Jennie Matjas on the ILGWU
No part of the transcripts may be quoted without the written persmission of the Director of the Bancroft Library of the University of California-Berkeley.

EUGENE BARNETT

Interview with Ben Legere about his involvement in the events at Centralia, Washington on Armistice Day, 1919, c. 1940.
Supplementing the interview are William Friedland's note on the provenance of the recording and Archie Green's account
of his 1961 interview with Barnett.
No restrictions stipulated.
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WALTER BERGMAN

Interview with Warner Pflug chronicling Bergman's political activities and his involvement in the civil rights movement, 1981.
No restrictions stipulated.
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BLACKS IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT

Oral histories conducted in Detroit and at Wayne State University by Herbert Hill, Roberta McBride, Norman McRae, and others during the late 1960s.

Albrier, Frances
Battle, Robert "Buddy"
Billups, Joseph (2 vols.)
Billups, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Bledsoe, Geraldine
Coles, Joseph
Crockett, George Jr.
Dade, Malcolm
DiGaetano, Nick
Doty, Edward L.
Grigsby, Snow
Hatcher, Ray
Hill, Charles
Jones, Dorothy
Lattimore, William
Lever, Jack

Livingston, David
McPhaul, Arthur
Macki, Eleanor
Marquart, Frank
Mason, Hodges (2 vols)
Neeley, James
Osman, Arthur
Raskin, Jack
Richard, Zeline
Robertson, George
Sheffield, Horace
Simmons, C. LeBron
Smith, Birney
Tappes, Shelton (3 vols.)
Whitby, Beulah

Cite Herbert Hill interviews as follows: Interview of subject by Herbert Hill on date in place used by persmission of Herbert Hill.
No other restrictions stipulated.
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IRVING BLUESTONE

Interview with Sidney Kelman relating to Bluestone's association with Walter Reuther, the Reuther caucus, and issues confronting the UAW from the late 1930s through the 1940s, 1975.
No restrictions stipulated.

GRACE LEE BOGGS

Interview with L. Todd Duncan and Kathryne V. Lindberg about her and husband, James Boggs's
revolutionary activism in inner city Detroit and their role in constructing a "black Marxism."
Published in the Summer 2001 issue of Social Text.

CARL BROWN

Interview with Howell Harris about the Foreman’s Association of America, 1974.
No restrictions stipulated.
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BRIGGS STRIKE ORAL INTERVIEW

Conducted by James B. Coppess as part of his research on the 1933 Briggs strike, 1975.
John W. Anderson
William V. Banks
Fred Valle
No restrictions stipulated.
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VALERY BURATI

Interview with Ida Burati about Jay Lovestone, George Meany and the ICFTU, 1984. Available on audio tape only (1).
Interview with Philip P. Mason about his early life, 1988. Available on audio tape only (1).
No restrictions stipulated.

LARRY CARLSTROM

Interview with John Barnard about UAW organizing and collective bargaining in automobile and farm machinery plants in Wisconsin and Illinois, especially during the 1930's and 40's, 1997.
No restrictions stipulated.

PAUL CAVANAGH

Interview conducted by Ray Boryczka with the brother of Detroit mayor Jermone P. Cavanagh, 1991.
No restrictions stipulated.
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CESAR CHAVEZ

John F. Kennedy Library, 1970.
No restrictions stipulated

CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS IN METROPOLITAN DETROIT ORAL HISTORY

A project undertaken by the Wayne State University Council on Early Childhood in the 1980s, intended to create an oral history that captures the memories and experiences of pioneers in child care and child development in metropolitan Detroit.

Arlene Altman
Ethel Childs Baker
Louise "Sally" Brown
Esther Callard
Leslie De Pietro
Florence Duhn
Alva Dworkin
Marion Edman

Arthur Enzmann
Mary Frew
David C. Hollister
Nicholas Hood
Teola Hunter
Kaye Koulouras
Anne Linn
Josephine Love

Susie McCarrol
Eleanor Moore
Keith Osborn
Bert Pryor
Carole Quarterman
Ann Marie Roeper
Marjorie Sanger
Dave Weikert

No restrictions stipulated.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY/NEW YORK TIMES ORAL HISTORIES

On microfiche only.

Baldwin, Roger
Brophy, John
Davis, William H.
Emspak, Julius
Hayes, Albert

McLaurin, Benjamin F.
Mitchell, Harry L.
Muste, A.J.
O'Hara, John
Pollack, William

Scachtman, Max
Thomas, Norman
Valesh, Eva McDonald
Wilkins, Roy

No restrictions stipulated.
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COLUMBINE MINE MASSACRE

Interview with six eyewitnesses to the massacre of six striking IWW miners by guards at the Columbine Mine in Lafayette, Colorado on November 21, 1927, conducted as part of the University of Colorado’s Coal Project, 1979. Available on audio tape only (1).
No restrictions stipulated.

JACK T. CONWAY

Jack Conway with Larry J. Hackman (John F. Kennedy Library), 1972
Jack Conway with Alice M. Hoffman (AFL-CIO Oral History Project), 1979
Jack conway with Micael L. Gillette (Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library), 1980
No restrictions stipulated.
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FRANCIS DILLON

Interview with Dennis East about William Green, AFL organizing in the auto industry adn the UAW presidency, 1971.
No Release

KATHERINE POLLAK ELLICKSON

Katherine Ellickson with Peter Corning (Columbia University Oral History Research Office, 1966-1967)
Katherine Ellickson with Philip P. Mason (Archives of labor and Urban Affairs, 1974)
Katherine Ellickson with Dennis East (Archives of labor and Urban Affairs, 1974)
The Columbia University Oral History Research Office interview may only be reproduced by Katherine Ellickson, her heirs, legal representatives, or assigns. No restrictions stipulated for the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs interviews.
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FRANK ALEXANDER ELLIS

Minnesota Historical Society, 1974
Permission from Minnesota Historical Society necessary for reproduction or publication.

“EMPTY SPACES”: PLANT SHUTDOWNS AND DISPLACEMENT IN THE INDUSTRIAL HEARTLAND

Interviews with Detroit-area auto industry workers conducted by Steven High as part of the research for his dissertation, “Empty Spaces: Divergent Responses to Industrial Transformation in North American, 1969-1984,” 1998. Available on videotape only.
Bernice Adams [Electric]
Ralph Brubaker [Chrysler Missile Plant, Sahlin Engineering]
Willie Eaddy [Fabricon Products]
Diane Garner [Ford’s Flat Rock Foundry]
Ruby Kendrick [Al-Craft Engineering]
Daniel McCarthy [Fabricon Products]
Marilyn McCormick [Northland Plastic]
Jim and Dolores McHale [W. H. Case]
Gabriel Solano [General Motors]
No restrictions stipulated.
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END OF THE LINE

Richard Feldman's and Michael Betzold's interviews with UAW Local 900 members at Ford's Michigan Truck and Wayne Assembly plants for their book , End of the Line: Autoworkers and the American Dream, 1986.

Ed Aubuchon
Yaser Awadallah
Bernard Clifford
Al Commons
Jerry Conrad
Jeff Cooper
Harold Coleman
Ljubiasav Filkoski
Betty Foote
Sheryl Jackson

Debbie Lynn Listman
Billie Jean Newsome
Abson "Mac" McDaniel
Dee Mueller
Don Mushinski
Ramon Reyes
Joe Roche
Berlin Scott
Lorenzo Sharpe
Gary Shellenbarger

Jim Stephens
Yvonne Sumpter
Mander "Lee" Thornsberry
Jim Vernatter
Walter "Jeff" Washington
Hillory Weber
Lance Whitis
Vic Wilkins
Betty Foote
Lorenzo Sharpe

Subjects may not be identified, unless the quoted, paraphrase, or information from the interview has already appeared in End of the Line.
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FEDERAL PATRONAGE OF THE ARTS IN MICHIGAN DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

Interviews with Michigan artists and writers conducted by Paul Sporn for his book, Against Itself: The Federal Theater and Writers' projects in the Midwest, 1978-1980.

Barbara Wilson Benetti
Hy Fireman
Leo Mogill
Albert Oriucci
Charles Pollock

Rebecca Shelley Rathmer
Kenneth Rowe
Edith Segal
Louis Sirotkin
Ruth Whitworth

No Restrictions Stipulated.
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FRANK FELT

Interview with Dennis East and Betty Chmaj about Finnish participation in the labor movement, 1975. Available on audio tape only (2).
No restrictions stipulated.

RICHARD FRANKENSTEEN

Interview with [?] Jones about the 1937 and 1945 Detroit elections, 1974. Available on audio tape only (6).
No restrictions stipulated.

FINNISH SOCIALIST HISTORY PROJECT

Ida Bjorkquist with Elvera Kanerva, c. 1976
Charles Jay with Elvera Kanerva, c. 1976
James Jukela with Elvera Kanerva, c. 1976
Elvera Kanerva with Dione Miles, 1976
Ilmi Reynolds with Elvera Kanerva, c. 1976
No restrictions stipulated.
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CHARLES GENTILE

Interview with Mike Smith about the Society of Design Engineers and UAW Local 412, 1986.
No restrictions stipulated.

RAY GIRARDIN

Interview with Ray Girardin about his career as a crime reporter with The Detroit Times and as Detroit Police Commissioner during the 1967 riot, 1971.
No restrictions stipulated.

MARGARET GREENFIELD

Interview with Aldo Lanza about Brookwood Labor College, n.d. Audio Tape only.
No Release
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

Interviews conducted by R.T. King relating to the economic history of Indiana.
Jack Jourdan, 1979
Victor Reuther, 1980
No restrictions stipulated. Quotations from the transcript may be used, providing the interviewee, interviewer and the Project are given proper credit.
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JACK JOURDAN

Interview on the 1937 sit-down strike at Guide Lamp in Anderson, Indiana conducted by R. T. King as part of the Indiana University Oral History Project on the Indiana economy in the twentieth century, 1979.
Quotations from the transcript may be used, providing the interviewee, interviewer and the Project are given proper credit.
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KELLOGG AFRICAN AMERICAN HEALTH CARE PROJECT

A series of oral histories with African American physicians, nurses, dentists, health care administrators, non-traditional health care providers and patients conducted by George Myers, Ronald Amos and others under the auspices of the University of Michigan Medical School. The interviews are part of a project sponsored by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to create and bring together resources relating to the African American health care experience in Southeastern Michigan from the 1940s through the 1960s. Project files contain tapes, transcripts, indexes and supplemental reference material.

Part 1 [Box 1]	Part 2 [Box 2]	Part 2 [Box 3]
Reginald Ayala Herman Glass Joseph Harris, D.D.S Arthur Johnson, Ph.D. Dorothy Mottley, R.N. Marjorie Peebles-Meyers, M.D. Elsie Smith. Oretta Todd, Ph.D. Claude/Vivienne Cooper, Pharm.B. Ophelia Northcross, R.N. Charles H. Wright, M.D. Watson Young, M.D.	William Anderson, D.O. Arthur Boddie, M.D. Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell, R.N. Henry Bryant, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. Alice Burton Waldo Cain, M.D. James Collins, M.D. Claude/Vivienne Cooper, Pharm.B. Gladys Dillard, R.N., M.P.H. George Gaines, Jr., M.S.W. Leon Gant, D.D.S. Della Goodwin, R.N., M.S.N. Frank Iacobell, M.B.A. Horace Jefferson, D.D.S. Sidney Jenkins, M.D.	Rachel Keith, M.D. William Lawson, O.D. Josephine Love, M.A. Hayward Maben, Jr., M.D. Berna Mason, M.A. Suesetta McCree, M.A., O.T.R. David Northcross, Jr., M.D. Ophelia Northcross, R.N.. Frank Raiford III, M.D. Rev. Garther Roberson, Jr. Rev. Dr. S. L. Roberson Fannie Starks, R.N., M.S.N. Lionel Swan, M.D. Irma Clara Webb, R.N. Charles Whitten, M.D.

SNo Restrictions Stipulated.
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LABOR DIPLOMACY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

A series of interviews covering the United States government's involvement in international labor affairs from the establishment of the State Department's Labor Attache Program in 1943, conducted by Morris Weisz, James F. Shea and others under the auspices of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, 1990-96.

David S. Burgess
John F. Correll
Harold L. Davey
John T. Doherty
Harry Fleischman
Dale E. Good
James Hoover
Lane Kirkland
George E. Lichtblau
George C. Lodge

Ray Marshall
Parke D. Massey
Jay Mazur
Bruce H. Millen
Dale M. Povenmire
Herman Rebhan
Roger Schrader & Herbert E. Weiner
Ben Stephansky
Gus Tyler

No restrictions stipulated.
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PERCY LLEWELLYN

Interview with Dennis East about unionizing Ford Motor Company and the history of UAW Local 600 during the 1940s and 1950s, 1971.
No restrictions stipulated.

LOW INCOME AND MINORITY WOMEN ORAL HISTORIES

A collaborative project of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the University of Arizona and the Schlesinger Library on the History of American Women at Radcliffe College, 1992. Indexes by race, ethnic group, geographic area and subject available.
Names of subjects may not be cited.
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OLGA MADAR

Interview with Silke Roth about the Coalition of Labor Union Women, 1994.
Interview with Joe Weaver and Wendy Robbins for TV2 special report on women’s
rights, 1972. Available on audio tape only (1).
No restrictions stipulated.

IRENE YOUNG MARINOVICH

Interview with Sue Hartmann about the UAW and conditions for women workers in Detroit-area auto plants during the 1930s and 1940s, 1974.
No restrictions stipulated.

BLAINE MARRIN

Reminiscences with an unidentified interviewer by the former president of UAW Local 157, 1985. Available on audio tape only (1).
No restrictions stipulated.
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WADE H. McCREE, Jr.

Interview with Tara Tappert about his family and education prior to the beginning of his professional career in Detroit after World War II, 1976.
No restrictions stipulated.

STOYAN MENTON

Interview with Warner Pflug about his association with the Socialist Party, his experiences as a radical student activist at Wayne State University in the 1930s and his work as education director of UAW Local 400 at Ford’s Highland Park plant in the 1940s, 1976, 1981.
No restrictions stipulated.
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MICHIGAN POLITICS AND LABOR

Tom Downs’s interviews with state labor and political figures. The 1995 and 1996 interviews were sponsored by the Michigan Political History Society.
Irving Bluestone, 1995
Father C. Peter Dougherty, 1988
Tom Downs with Bob LaBrant, 1995
Tom Downs with Philip P. Mason, 1987-1988. Available on audio tape only (3).
Wilfird F. “Bill” Doyle, 1984
George C. Edwards, Jr., 1988
Zolton Ferency, 1988
Douglas Fraser, 1995
Robert P. Griffin, 1996. Available on videotape only (1).
Adelaide Hart and Neil Staebler, 1988. Available on audio tape only (4).
Mildred Jeffrey, 1995
Miles Lord, 1988. Available on audio tape (5) and videotape (4) only.
G. Mennen Williams, 1988. Available on videotape only (1).
No part of the interviews with Douglas Fraser and Mildred Jeffrey may be quoted for publication without their permission. Permission must be obtained from LTS Productions for largescale reproduction of the videotaped interviews with Irving Bluestone, Douglas Fraser and Mildred Jeffrey. No other restrictions stipulated.
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DAVE MILLER

Interview with Daniel Brooks about his career as president of UAW Local 22 and his role as leader of UAW retired workers, 1972.
No restrictions stipulated.

WYNDHAM MORTIMER: REFLECTIONS OF A LABOR ORGANIZER

Oral History Program, University of California - Los Angeles, 1967
No part of the transcript may be quoted for publication without the written permission of the University Librarian of the University of California at Los Angeles.

NEWSPAPER GUILD ORAL HISTORIES

Edward Allen “Recollections,” 1974
Jonathon Eddy and I. L. Kanen with Warner Pflug, 1983
William Farson with Warner Pflug, 1983. Available on audio tape only (1).
R. F. Gilfillan with Dennis East, 1973. Unrevised transcript.
Charles “Tad” Irvine with Alan D. Cline, 1987
Don Stevens with Dennis East, 1971. Available on audio tape only (2).
Don Stevens with Alan D. Cline, 1987
No restrictions stipulated.
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CARRIE BURTON OVERTON

Interview with Philip P. Mason about her early life, 1969.
No restrictions stipulated.

ROSA PARKS

Interview conducted as part of the Black Women Oral History Project at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe, 1978.
No part of the transcript may be photocopied or otherwise reproduced or quoted for publication without the written
permission of the Director of the Schlesinger Library.

POLISH-AMERICAN AUTOWORKERS ORAL HISTORIES

Interviews with 26 members of UAW Local 235 (Hamtramck, Michigan Chevrolet plant) conducted by
Patricia Pilling for her dissertation, which explores cultural factors among skilled Polish-American automobile workers.
No restrictions stipulated.

PROFILES OF SWE PIONEERS

A projected four-year oral history project sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) in partnership with The Walter P. Reuther Library intended to document the history of women in engineering since World War II, 2001-04.
Yvonne Clark and Irene Sharpe with Lauren Kata, 2001

Part 1 [Box 1]	Part 2 [Box 2]	Part 2 [Box 3]
Eleanor Baum Lois Bey Patrucua L. Brown Yvonne Clark & Irene Sharpe Stella Lawrence Daniels Margaret Eller Ann O. Fletcher Evelyn Fowler Isabelle French & Elaine Pitts Lois Graham Arminta Harness	Ivy F. Hooks Suzanne Jenniches Barbara "Bobbi" Crawford Johnson Margaret Haden Kipilo Anna Longobardo Alva Matthews Naomi McAfee Dorothy Morris

Permission from the SWE Archivist or his/her designee is required for use in publications or media presentations. No restrictions stipulated.
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RADICAL UNIONISTS ORAL HISTORIES

Interviews conducted by Roger Keeran for his book, The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions, 1971. Available on audio tape only (8).
Irwin Baur on UAW Local 306 [Budd Wheel Company]
Arthur McPhaul on UAW Local 600 [Ford Rouge plant]
Phil Raymond on the Auto Workers Union
John Zupan on the Rank and File Movement
No restrictions stipulated.

PHILIP RAYMOND

Interview with Shelton Tappes about his work organizing for the United Automobile, Aircraft and Vehicle Workers of America and the UAW, c. 1977.
No release.
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META RISEMAN

Interview with Patricia Painter about her activities with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1978. Available on audio tape only (2).
No restrictions stipulated.
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ROSIE THE RIVETER REVISTED: WOMEN AND THE WORLD WAR II WORK EXPERIENCE

California State University at Long Beach Oral History Resource Center study of women defense plant workers, 1979-1983. Index available.

Marie Baker
Betty Boggs
Clella Juanita Bowman
Freda Campbell
Norma Cantrell
Flora Chavez
Beatrice Morales Clifton
Alma Dotson
Videll Drake
Mildred Eusebio
Maria Fierro

Mern Freige
Fanny Christina Hill
Marguerite Hoffman
Josephine Houston
Vera Hunter
J.K.
Eva Lowe
Mary Luna
Kathleen MacNeil
Lillian March
Belen Martinez Mason

Glad McLeod
Adele Hernadez Milligan
Rose Echeverria Mulligan
Bette Murphy (2 vols.)
Charlcia Neuman
Isabell Orwin
Mildred Owen
Harriet Perry
Mary Polliard
Lupe Purdy
Genevieve Roesch

Alicia Shelit
Margarita Salazar McSweyn
Etta Simmons
Rose Singleton
Addie Stangeland
Helen Studer
Marye Stumph
Margaret White
Evelyn Widdicombe
Women's Counselors: Emilie Cook and Susan Laughlin

No part of the transcripts may be quoted for publication without the written permission of California State University, Long Beach Foundation or Sherna Berger Gluck.
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ROY REUTHER

Interview with Sidney Fine about the 1936-37 Flint Sit-down strike, 1966.
No restrictions stipulated.

VICTOR REUTHER

[1] Interview about UAW organizing activity in Indiana in 1937 conducted by R. T. King as part of the Indiana University Oral History Project on the Indiana economy in the twentieth century, 1980.
Quotations from the transcript may be used, providing the interviewee, interviewer and the Project are given proper credit.
[2] Interview with Ida Burati about Jay Lovestone, George Meany and the ICFTU, 1984. Available on audio tape only (1).
No release.

IRVING RICHTER

Conversation with unidentified interviewer about his career in the labor movement, 1988. Available on audio tape only (6).
No release.
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CARL SALO

Interview with Betty Chmaj about Finnish participation in the labor movement, 1975. Available on audio tape only (2).
No restrictions stipulated.
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SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS

Ralph Eliaser, Director, SEIU Joint Council #8. Interview conducted by Louis Jones, October, 1998.
Richard Liebes, Director, SEIU Joint Council #2. Interview conducted by Louis Jones, October, 1998.
Where We Come From Who We Are: Voices of SEIU Local 82 Members, 1997
No restrictions stipulated.

PAUL SCHRADE

Interview with Thomas J. Connors about his career with the UAW and his involvement with the United Farm Workers, Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign and the antiwar and civil rights movements, conducted as part of the UAW Workplace and Community Action project under the auspices of the University of California Oral History Program, 1989-90. 2 vols.
No restrictions stipulated.
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TED SILVEY

Interview with Dennis East about his career as a speaker and writer with the Ohio CIO Council and the national CIO, 1976.
No restrictions stipulated.

HILDA SMITH & FRANK FERNBACK

Interview of chair and co-chair of the National Committee for the Extension of Labor Education with Alice Hoffman, touching primarily on the Committee's efforts in the late 1940s to get federal legislation passed to establish a labor educational service, 1971.
No restrictions stipulated.

SYDNEY D. SMITH COLLECTION

Series II
Interviews and Research Materials, Boxes 2-6
Interviews and research materials relating to the establishment and development of the Migrant Ministry. Interview transcripts are arranged alphabetically, while the research material maintains its original order. These interviews were conducted between 1979 and 1982.
Robert McAfee Brown
Karl Irvin
Rev. William Scholes
John P. Crossley
Mary McFarland
Rev. David Sholin
Rev. James Drake
Dr. Richard Norberg
Rev. Douglas Still
Bejamin Fraticelli
Henry Pavian
Keith and Rean Taeger
Chris Hartmire
Rev. Walter Press
Dr. Forest Weir
Chris Hartmire and Cesar Chavez
Dr. Jon Regier
Dr. Harold Wilson
Pat Hoffman
Don Reynolds
Winthrop Yinger
Pat and Cecil Hoffman
Sandy Clark Sample

Joseph Hough
Ted and Blanch Schmidt

There are no signed releases on the transcripts, and certain restrictions apply to direct quotations.
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THOMAS STARLING

Interview with George Tselos about the organization of UAW Local 34 at the GM Fisher Body plant in Atlanta, Georgia in the 1930s, 1980.
No restrictions stipulated.

MARK AND HELEN NORTON STARR

Interview with Dennis East about their experiences at Brookwood Labor College and related events, 1974.
No restrictions stipulated.
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STUDEBAKER ORAL HISTORIES

Conducted by Loren E. Pennington as part of his research on Studebaker, 1971-1972.
Lester Fox
J.D. "Red" Hill
T. Forrest Hanna
George C. Hupp
William Ogden
No restrictions stipulated.
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JOSEPH B. SULLIVAN

Interview with Raymond Boryczka about the election and administration of Detroit mayor Jerome Cavanagh, 1991.
No restrictions stipulated.

TALKING UNION

Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600, the local representing workers at Ford's Rouge plant, 1983-1984.
Archie Acciacca
John Orr
Ken Bannon
Goerge Pluhar
Ann & Paul Boatin
Victor Reuther
Walter Dorosh
William Johnson
John Mando
Henry McCusker
David Moore
Stanley & Margaret Nowak
Deloris & Kenneth Roche
John Saari
Horace Sheffield
Shelton Tappes
Arthur McPhaul
Thomas Yeager
Mike Zarro
No restrictions stipulated
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FRED W. THOMPSON

Interview with Richard J. Altenbaugh, recounting Thompson's activities with the Work Peoples' College, 1984.
No restrictions stipulated.

ROBERT E. TREUHAFT: LEFT-WING POLITICAL ACTIVITST AND PROGRESSIVE LEADER IN THE BERKELEY CO-OP

Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley Oral History Collection, 1991.
No restrictions stipulated.
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UAW ORAL HISTORIESa

Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of The University of Michigan-Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. Index available

Addes, George F.
Adkins, Louis H.
Anderson, John
Bannon, Kenneth F.
Bartee, John
Beckman, Charles K.
Beni, J.A.
Berndt, Raymond H.
Bishop, Merlin D.
Brams, Stanley
Bully, NormanW.
Burt, George
Carey, Ed
Case, Arthur
Cleveland, James M.
Coleman, Richard
Conway, Charles (2)
Conway, Jack T.
Cook, Alexander
Couser, James G.
Cranefield, Harold A.
Davidow, Larry S.
DeCaux, Len
Digaetano, Nick
Ditzel, Joseph B.
Doherty, James F.*
Doll, Tracy
Dollinger, Genora
Dollinger, Sol
Dornetto, Dominic
Eldon, John
Fagan, Frank
Ferrazza, Jess
Ferris, Joseph
Foster, Bert
Francis, Everett E.
Frankensteen, Richard
Freitag, Elmer
Furay, Mort
Gallagher, Daniel M.
Ganley, Nat
Gelles, Catherine
Genske, William
Gentile, Charles
Germer, Adolph F.
Gomon, Josephine
Grant, Murvel**
Greathouse, Pat

Gregory, Stanley J.
Haessler, Carl
Haggard, Fred W.
Hall, Ed
Hammond, Matthew B.
Harris, Richard
Hattley, Joseph
Hughes, Arthur
Humphreys, William
Hurst, Jack R.
Ingram, R.C.
Innis, Forest L.
Jensen, Martin
Johnson, Clayton E.
Johnson, Lester
Jones, Lloyd
Kanter, Robert L.
Kitzman, Harvey
Klasey, Tom
Klue, Leonard E.
Laduke, Theodore
Lake, Monroe
Leach, Russell
Lee, Edgar J.
Leggat, Al
Llewelyn, Percy
Manfred, Frank
Manning, Michael J.
Marquart, Frank
Martin, Homer
Matthews, Norman
Mattson, Joseph
McCracken, Elizabeth
McDaniel, John K.
McGill, John
Merrelli, George
Merrill, Russell J.
Michener, Lewis H.
Miley, Paul E.
Montgomery, Andrew B.
Morris, Ken
Mortimer, Wyndham
Nowak, Stanley
Oddle, James**
O´Donohue, Clayton**
O´Halloran, Cyril
Oliver, William
O'Malley, Patrick

Pagano, Joseph
Palmer, F.R.
Panzner, John V.
Payne, William
Peppler, Orrin H.
Piconke, Joseph H.
Pody, Leon
Poplewski, Adam
Prato, Gene
Purdy, Edward
Quillico, Walter
Raymond, Philip
Reuther, May
Reuther, Roy
Reuther, Victor
Richardson, Herbert
Ringwald, John F.
Rohan, Arthur E.
Roland, Janes A.
Ross, Harry E.
Russo, Paul
Sage, Sam
Sahorske, Frank J.
Schilling, Edgar J.
Shaffer, Leo D.
Simons, Bud
Smith, Samuel D.
Southwell, Harry
Speth, Roy
Stevenson, William
Swanson, Carl R.
Taylor, I. Paul
Tappes, Shelton
Thomas, R.J.
Thompson, F.W.
Thompson, Hugh
Tuttle, Frank
Vega, Art
Vess, Raymond
Wallemann, Frank*
Weinberg, Nat
Wilse, Jack
Woodcock, Leonard
Yaeger, Charles E.
Yenney, Charles E.
Yost, Lawrence
Zaremba, John A.

*In a volume with Charles Conway **In a volume with John K. McDaniel
No Restrictions Stipulated
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UAW INTERNATIONAL EXCECUTIVE BOARD ORAL HISTORIES

A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members, covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union.
Ken Bannon with Warner Pflug
Don Ellis with Glenn Ruggles
Martin Gerber with Glenn Ruggles
Marc Stepp with John Barnard
Raymond Berndt with Glenn Ruggles
Donald Ephlin with John Barnard
Duane (Pat) Greathouse with Glenn Ruggles
Joe Tomasi with Glenn Ruggles
Owen Bieber with John Barnard
Daniel Forchione with Glenn Ruggles
Olga Madar with Glenn Ruggles
Leonard Woodcock with John Barnard
Irving Bluestone with John Barnard
Carolyn Forrest with Irving Bluestone
George Merrelli with Glenn Ruggles
George Burt with Glenn Ruggles
Douglas Fraser with John Barnard
Ken Morris with John Barnard

No restrictions stipulated.
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CHARLESZETTA WADDLES

Interview conducted as part of the Black Women Oral History Project at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe, 1980.
No part of the transcript may be photocopied or otherwise reproduced or quoted for publication without the written permission of the Director of the Schlesinger Library.
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ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS