Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of origins of Spanish-language Communist movement in Ybor City, Florida during the 1920s-1930s; community support of Communists and relation to surrounding communities during the 1930s-1940s; immigration from Spain, work in tobacco factories, and activities of unions during the 1920s-1940s; and Red Scare decimation of Ybor City Left during the 1950s. Also discussed is a meeting with Fidel Castro in the 1950s, before Cuban Revolution. Joseph Norrick was present for interview with Alvarez, and second cassette of interview also contains a segment of a different interview with Joseph and Ruth Norrick.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Tapes begin with a narrative about Ameringer's life, the Oklahoma Leader and other newspapers, activism among miners, her socialist family, and the early socialist movement, followed by an interview.

Interview by James Green.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the Communist Party on the Lower East Side of New York City during the 1940s-1960s, conflicts with her Socialist father, experiences as Local 65 shop steward, the Jefferson School, harassment and isolation of CP in the 1950s, and reactions to emergence of the New Left.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the topics of immigration and the political and cultural activities of the New York Jewish community during the 1930s-1950s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the Los Angeles Jewish Left since the 1930s, the rise of anti-Nazi "front" across Jewish community and Communists' participation in it, the isolation of Jewish Left during Cold War, Aspiz's literary interests, and his involvement in the Yiddishe Kultur Farband as a senior citizen.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Conversation includes discussion of neighborhood background in Providence during the 1950s, army life in Vietnam and Germany, radical influences, and his political philosophy and aspirations. The interview also covers union activity at Electric Boat/Quonset Point, Rhode Island, organizing drives, and union activity at Brown & Sharpe before and during the 1982 strike.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Barry's boyhood and first labor experience in Endicott, New York, the Trade Union Unity League and United Electrical Workers District 4, and the Westinghouse elevator plant in Jersey City, New Jersey during the 1930s-1950s.

Interview by Ruth F. Prago.

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes a discussion of the differences between Baxandall's expectations and the realities of left wing culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1958 through the 1960s, after coming from New York Old Left background and having a brief stint at Smith College. Also discussed are gender relations in the left and academy; the relationship between music, poetry, theatre, and beat culture and politics in Madison; and the importance of the Rathskeller bar in academic and radical life. Baxandall also discusses her studies in French and history, academic role models, challenging cultural norms, the beginnings of the women's movement in Madison, and the impact of her time at Madison on the rest of her life.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The release form that Tamiment Library has for this interview does not include transfer of copyright. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from the narrator, Rosalyn Baxandall. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting this individual.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the college anti-war movement during the 1930s, the American Student Union, Keep America Out of War Congress during the late 1930s, the experience of conscientious objectors during World War II, and postwar work with National Sharecroppers' Fund.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a Mesaba Park Cooperative Association tribute to John Bernard, a Farmer-Labor Party representative from Minnesota's Eighth Congressional District, who served from 1936-1938. It includes speeches by former Minnesota Governor Elmer Benson and others about Bernard's record in Congress, a response from Bernard, and music.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview describes the Communist Party in Harlem during the 1930s, including his involvement in Communist Party apparatus, personalities in the CP, relationships with other activist groups, and the CP's intellectual climate during the Great Depression.

Berry analyzes at length the relationship between Party policies on race and African American identity. This includes the initial appeal of the Communist Party for African Americans and the organizational implications of the CP policy of black and white unity. He also looks at how this policy fit into larger questions of African American national identity at time, including the CP's relationship with Garvey movement. He also speaks about the study of American history by African American CP leadership and the prevalent desire for assimilation. He also looks at the CP's broader policy towards a mass movement with an American identity, and he analyzes how Franklin Delano Roosevelt's policies and CP policies worked together during the Depression.

Berry also shares his memories of Party administrators and figures in Harlem. These include Richard Moore, James Ford, Cyril Briggs, Arnold Johnson, Merrill Work, Charles White, and Manning Johnson, who later testified before HUAC. He also shares his recollections of the 1935 Harlem riot and subsequent hearings and Robert Minor's involvement in hearings.

Also included is an analysis of Richard Wright's work and commentary on the Party, including discussion of Native Son and  The Outsider. Berry describes of meetings with Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Theodore Ward, in which they discussed literature, especially the use of symbols. He also describes the CP's attempts to control cultural criticism, and comments on Socialist realism and its divorce from reality. Berry also discusses the Party's acceptance of jazz and folk music, and speaks of the theoretical implications of improvisation in jazz music.

Berry also discusses the activities of the CP and its interactions with other organizations. This includes his activities and politics in Politburo in the late 1930s; analysis of the trade union caucuses, including Mike Quill and the TWU; the reactions to the Nazi-Soviet Pact; the foundation of the National Negro Congress; experiences working with Garvey movement; and the work of the Ethiopian Defense Committee in Harlem. Berry also describes the Party's working relationships with ministers, including Adam Clayton Powell (Baptist), Johnny Johnson (Episcopalian), Father Phillips (Episcopalian), William Lloyd Imes (Presbyterian), and Father Divine.

Other topics addressed include the CP education programs for members in Harlem, the high turnover among CP members, differences in debate of African-American self-determination in North and South of United States, the activities of the Workers' Alliance at the Home Relief Bureaus, Unemployed Councils, and interracial marriage in the Party.

Interview by Mark Naison.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the life and activities of a Yiddish "proletarian poet" including his childhood, immigration and literary work for New Yorker Volkszeitung during the 1920s, his friendship with writer Moshe Nadir, the role of the Left in the Yiddish literary community, the Proletpen circle of writers, Birnbaum's disillusionment with Communism and poetic realism, and his return to unrestrained lyricism.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the meaning of the "sense of humor" in Yiddish literary work and Birnbaum's own sense of humor contrasted with that of writer Moshe Nadir and Jewish popular culture.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the role of ethnicity in Communist Party of Wisconsin during the 1930s-1940s; support of the Left from the Polish sector dating back to 1880 and support of other Slav groups from 1910s; role of Meta Berger in Wisconsin Party and Blair's ascendency to state leadership; unemployment demonstration in Milwaukee and influence on students in University of Wisconsin-Madison; increase of District membership with addition of northern Wisconsin; character of northern Wisconsin rural Communists; exodus of rural Communists from state during the 1940s-1950s, and the impact of McCarthyism on the decline of Communist Party support.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

The interview includes a discussion of Boggs' Asian-American family background in Providence, Rhode Island; her education and involvement in radical politics in New York during the late 1930s; the Workers Party and Johnson-Forest tendency during the 1940s; Correspondence in Detroit during the 1950s; involvement in the Black Power movement with her husband, James Boggs; and comments on C.L.R. James.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Boggs' youth in the South, factory life in Detroit during the 1930s-1940s, the Johnson-Forest Tendency, and activities in 1960s-1970s.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Scope and Content Note

Interview discusses Students for a Democratic Society, its internal politics, relationships with other student groups, and demonstrations.

Interview by Kirkpatrick Sale.

Scope and Content Note

Political struggles within the International Ladies Garment Workers Union during the 1920s, experiences on trips in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, and women's role in the Communist Party.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the Workers' Newsreel and Film and Photo League during the early 1930s.

Interview by Russell Campbell.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights to publicity and privacy) to materials in this collection were transferred to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Complete versions of this interview may not be published or copied without the written permission of Thomas Brandon or his estate.

Use Restrictions

Any rights (including copyright and related rights of publicity and privacy) were transferred to New York University in 1980. Use of these materials is subject to the approval of Jeremy Brecher during his lifetime.

Scope and Content Note

Brecher discusses the activities of the Students for a Democratic Society between 1962 and 1965.

Interview by Kirkpatrick Sale.

Scope and Content Note

Brier discusses life in the East End of London during the 1920s-1930s, the Jewish character of Communism, anti-fascist activities in London during the 1920-1930s, his immigration to Los Angeles, and union activities, from the 1940s to the time of the interview.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a slide show on the history of Brookwood Labor College and Workers' Education Local 189, with comments by former Brookwood staff and students.

Narrated by Jon Bloom.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Buch's immigration from Turkey and youth in Los Angeles, brief involvement in Socialist Zionism during the early 1950s, the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialist Alliance in Los Angeles and nationally during the 1950s-1960s, the Robert Williams case, responses to Cuban Revolution, and the Vietnam War.

Interview by Douglas Cooper.

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains discussion of Saint Louis radicalism during the 1930s, the Socialist Party, the American Workers Party, the Trotskyist movement, and the Workers Party. Also discussed is CLR James in Missouri and unionization of gas workers.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

This talk covers labor activities in Rhode Island during the early 1930s and her role as a Communist speaker, and organizer in Providence and Pawtucket.

Public address, Rhode Island Labor History Forum.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by creators. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holders. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by creators. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holders. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Recording of speech titled "What Socialist America Will Look Like."

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Caplowitz's immigration, the activities of Jewish Communists in unions during the 1920s-1930s, and Yiddish culture and the Yiddishe Kultur Farband during the 1930s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the origins of Labor (Paole) Zionism in Eastern Europe and Caruso's role in the early 20th century; the formation and publication Yiddishe Kempfer in New York; the growth of Poale Zionism during the World War I era and brief publication of daily Zionist newspaper; growth of Zionism in the 1930s-1940s and support of Israel; and reflections on the failure of Zionists regarding Arabs in Israel and the conservative Israeli leadership.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents activities against the United States' intervention in Nicaragua in 1928, Christian Socialism in a San Francisco parish during the 1930s-50s, and Chase's interpretation of the Liberation Theology of the 1970s-80s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

This recording contains an interview to supplement Chazanow's 1956 Yiddish autobiography, Days and Years.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator fo the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the early union background of former president of United Auto Workers Local 248 Allis Chalmers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the 1930s.

Interview by Roger Keeran.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Citron's career as a teacher in Harlem during the 1930s-1940s, her involvement in the Teachers' Union, her dismissal during the McCarthy era, and struggle for reinstatement.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Scope and Content Note

Clemente discusses his role as editor of La Parola and secretary of Italian Socialist Federation in the 1930s, Italian left factions in Chicago and other cities, and the left wing Italian presses.

Interview by Eugene Miller.

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Emily Raphael.

Scope and Content Note

Recollections of studies at the Jefferson School of Social Science.

Interview by Debby Cohen.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Theresa Diamond.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Cortez discusses being the son of a Mexican-American activist who joined Industrial Workers of the World after San Diego Free Speech Fight, his father's life in Milwaukee during the 1920s, and his mother, a German-American Socialist and poet. Cortez also discusses his imprisonment during World War II as conscientious objector, the role of the IWW in Chicago Mexican-American community during the 1940s, his role as artist and speaker for IWW in the 1940s-1980s, and anarchism and the IWW.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the Left during the Great Depression, the League of Professional Groups, "Culture and the Crisis" in 1932, the proletarian novel, John Reed Clubs, the Communist Party's Popular Front strategy, the Spanish Civil War, and reflections.

Interview by Richard Wormser.

Scope and Content Note

Cvetas discusses his family's background with the Slovenian fraternal society SNPJ (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota), participating in the fraternal society's activities as child, and fraternalism in 1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Recording of presentation by Sam Darcy at State University of New York at Albany for the course History 3162.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Existence and Location of Originals

The original copies of these recordings are held by the University at Albany (SUNY).

Scope and Content Note

Davidson discusses a "United Front" of organizations for preservation of Yiddish language in Miami Beach, his activism in left causes and the preservation of Yiddish, and reflections on survival of the Yiddish language.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the aesthetics of Hungarian-American radical press, including the publications Uj Elore and  Hungarian Word from the 1920s-1980s. Interview also includes story of Deak's immigration and his interest in progressive press. Other topics include the circulation and internal structure of  Uj Elore, and the shrinking of a distinct Hungarian-American milieu.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the Socialist Party and reformism between 1900-1920, Solon's break with Daniel DeLeon, the International Workers of the World (IWW), the Industrial Union League, and the Socialist Labor Party since the 1930s.

Interview by Malcolm Kaufman & Jeff Sklar.

Scope and Content Note

Statement includes introduction by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

A series of lectures by Dolson on life and involvement with Communist Party. First two disks are a lecture including Dolson's gravitation to Communism, the Red Scare of the 1920s, Dolson's trial for political beliefs in California, and a question and answer session about Dolson's life and political situation at the time of lecture. Remainder of disks are an interview with Paul Buhle in Providence, Rhode Island. Interview includes Dolson's joining of the Socialist Party in 1907, socialist journals, socialism in Chicago, the trial in California, formation of Communist Labor Party, activism in Pittsburgh in 1930s, the Dies Committee, the state of Israel and the left, and other topics.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

The interviewee, going only by her first name, discusses student radicalism during the 1930s, activities of the Communist Party, the United Electrical Workers, and social life and friends.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Scope and Content Note

Drake-Raphals discusses her role in the Workers Party and C.L.R. James in the 1940s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Duda discusses the Lithuanian-American Left's activities around Connecticut's Brass Valley during the 1920s-1950s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Dunayevskaya discusses Leon Trotsky and Trotskyism during the 1930s, the Johnson-Forest group during the 1940s, the coal strikes of 1949-1950, and the origins of the Marxist-Humanist organization News and Letters.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Edwards discusses life in Wisconsin lumber during the early 1900s, the Industrial Workers of the World, Elmer Smith, the repression of the IWW, Edwards' time at San Quentin, and the ebb of the IWW.

Interview by Tom Copeland & Tracy Dalton.

Use Restrictions

Release form releases rights regarding use to the Minnesota Historical Society. Please contact Tamiment Library or the Minnesota Historical Society for more information.

Scope and Content Note

Interview addresses the activities of the Slovenian-American mutual aid society SNPJ (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota) and the relationship between Slavic ethnic identities and the left.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

The interview covers Epstein's background in Dallas, Texas (born 1885) as child of mixed Episcopalian-Jewish marriage. It also covers her time in New York from 1908, Socialist Party activities during the 1910s, Communist Party involvement from the 1920s, the American Council on US-Soviet Friendship, the Committee of American Women, and local political activities in Queens, New York.

Interview by Ruth F. Prago.

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of radical Zionism, the Johnson-Forest Tendency, and activities in Detroit during the 1930s-1960s.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Eulogy by Harry Ring for Duncan Ferguson, a sculptor and activist in Socialist Workers Party during the 1940s-1970s.

Scope and Content Note

Figueredo discusses the Portuguese-American Left in New Bedford and Fall River, Massachusetts during the 1930s-1940s. He speaks the beginning of his introduction to politics during the strikes of the 1920s and Communist role. He addresses the lack of formal fraternal and cultural structure and absence of regular Portuguese-language Communist press. Additionally, the interview covers the use of local radio, Cold War pressures during the 1940s, his departure to San Francisco, and activities in International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) from the 1950s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Fisher discusses left politics and Jewish culture from the 1930s-1970s. Topics include labor Zionism and the Workmen's Circle, the Jewish Socialist Farband, and the Miami Beach Yiddishkayt.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Foner discusses being driven out of teaching during the late 1940s, industrial and union activities during the 1948-1970s, the Communist Party, and Ben Gold.

Interview by Russell Karr.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Several recordings of readings and interviews of Emmanuel Fried. The first disk contains a May 1983 discussion for Buffalo radio station WBNY with topics including education, acting, union organizing, writing, impact of blacklist on career. The second and third disks are the recording of a Niagara-Erie writing conference held at St. John's Grace Episcopal Church in Buffalo, New York on Oct 30, 1980. Fried gives a reading from his plays and there is also a reading by author Peter Mathiessen. The fourth disk contains a radio interview of Fried by John Nash for WADU in Buffalo, taken in Mar 1980. The fifth disk contains a readings from the Labor Writers Workshop on Jun 8, 1977, introduced by Emmanuel Fried and broadcast on WBFO of Buffalo. The sixth disk contains the recording of a New Letters on the Air (Kansas City, Missouri) broadcast of readings and an interview of Fried from Jun 1978.

Scope and Content Note

Interview addresses union activities and the Left from the 1930s-1950s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of Garlin's background in the Socialist Party in the 1910s and his time at the Daily Worker in the 1920s-1930s, including the paper's atmosphere and humor.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

Approval for direct quotations must be obtained from interviewee or his heirs.

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes description of background and youth in Ukraine, Massachusetts, and New York. It also includes discussion of Gerson's involvement in the Young Communist League and the events of the Passaic and Gastonia textile strikes.

Interview by Alan Safron.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview discusses the gay liberation movement during the 1950s-1970s.

Interview by Howard August.

Scope and Content Note

Glaberman discusses the Johnson-Forest Tendency in New York and Detroit during the 1940s-1950s.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Gold's youth in New York City, her recollections of World War I, seeking employment, her involvement in the Socialist Party in 1933, her activities with the War Resisters' League, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the trade union movement, and union work with teachers in 1950.

Interview by Sy Singer.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. In release form, narrator granted Tamiment Library broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains Goldberg's reflections on secular and religious aspects of Jewish cultural identity and an examination of unique characteristics of Jewish humor.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview topics include the Communist Party, women's organizations, price and rent protests in Brooklyn and the Bronx, and activism during the 1930s.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Scope and Content Note

Goldwater discusses C.L.R. James during the 1920s-1960s, the Workers Party during the 1940s, Trotskyism, anti-Stalinism, neo-conservatism, Pan-Africanism, and Eric Williams.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Gordon describes his association with Frontier Films, and coming to film through a background with the Film and Photo League and Group Theatre during the 1930s. Gordon discusses and contrasts the politics of Frontier Films and Group Theatre. Interview also includes discussion of Gordon's work on various projects and associates in Hollywood and New York City.

Interview by Russell Campbell.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Yiddish literary milieu in 1920s and role of interviewee's uncle, A.M. Dillon. Also covered are the Johnson-Forest Tendency, its leaders and activities during the 1940s, and cultural perspectives.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the Yiddish Left in Los Angeles and nationally from the 1930s-1980s. This includes Greenberg's analysis of various personalities in Yiddish literature including Leivick, Avrom Reyzen, Moshe Nadir, and others. He comments on the relative literary merits of the Morgen Freiheit,   Forward, and  Freie Arbeiter Stimme, and describes the break between the  Freiheit and many writers on the Yiddish literary scene.

Greenberg expresses pessimism regarding Yiddish culture and working class political movements in the 1980s, and details his own loss of faith in the Soviet Union during the preceding decades. Facets of this discussion include the diminished state of Yiddish culture in the Soviet Union, contrasts between his travels there during 1930s and 1980s, and Greenberg's analyses of the reasons for the decline of Jewish progressive movement.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of Sarah Gudelman's youth in Russia and Germany, her family history, immigration to Lower East Side in New York City and work in the garment trade. Other topics include life with her husband, the sculptor Gudelman, and the death of their first child. Also discussed are Sarah Gudelman's work as administrator for 18 progressive shuls in Bronx, her assessments of artists and Yiddish literary figures including Moshe Nadir and Itche Goldberg, and her involvement in the Communist Party.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Topics covered by this interview include the Ukrainian-American Left, the International Workers Order during the 1930s-1940s, the effects of McCarthyism, problems of organization, publications, and the generational continuity in the ethnic progressive movement through the 1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. In release form, narrator granted Tamiment Library broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview with Sanford Katz, the attorney representing defendants from the Progressive Labor Movement who were charged with involvement in the Harlem Riots of 1964. Subjects include criticism of actions of grand jury, selection of the grand jury, and the implications of holding Eleanor Goldstein in contempt multiple times over the same questions.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the legal prosecution of the International Workers Order in New York State during the 1950s and Henry's role as ex-Special Assistant Attorney General.

Interview by Howard Brown.

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of immigration from Russian Empire, youth in Bayonne, New Jersey, and the press and the Left.

Interview by Diana Maull.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the Saint Louis Free Thought movement from the nineteenth century to 1940s, Hoops' background in Germany, his immigration to the United States, the Rand School of Social Science, the Socialist Party in Saint Louis during the 1930s, and Free Thought and atheism in Saint Louis from the 1940s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrators and interviewer. In release form, narrators granted Tamiment Library broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Scope and Content Note

Interview with David Freedman, Sam Neuberger, and Fay Pasternak on International Labor Defense, National Lawyers Guild, and radical legal work in the 1930s-1940s. Interview includes recollections of Joe Brodsky, Carol King, Vito Marcantonio, and others.

Interview by Ann Ginger and Debra Bernhardt.

Scope and Content Note

Interview is on track 1 of CD ILGWU 1.

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Scope and Content Note

Interview is on track 2 of CD ILGWU 2.

The narrator discusses work in the garment industry and figures in the ILGWU during the 1910s-1940s.

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Scope and Content Note

Interview is on track 1 of CD ILGWU 2.

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Scope and Content Note

Interview is on track 2 of CD ILGWU 1.

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Scope and Content Note

Interview is on track 2 of CD ILGWU 4.

Interview by David Gurowsky.

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a speech titled "Africa and World Politics" at the University of Rhode Island.

Recorded by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Jokubka's background in Lithuania and activities in Argentina during the 1930s. He also speaks of his editorship of Vilnis, a Chicago-based Lithuanian-language newspaper, since 1942. Jokubka also discusses the problems of publishing ethnic newspaper and the role of cultural activities in the Lituanian-American movement.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Dan Cohen.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Kaartinen discusses his Finnish-American radical background during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War, and fraternal and political activities from the 1940s-1970s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Katz's early days in the Communist Party, the fight against white chauvinism, and the Needle Trades Industrial Union's activities during the 1920s.

Interview by Ruth F. Prago.

Scope and Content Note

Kertman discusses the Yiddishe Kultur Farband (YKUF) and the Jewish cultural movement in Los Angeles.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Brief interview with Russian-born painter about his family and his work.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Use Restrictions

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Mary Kolehmainen and Bill Schechter for this interview were transferred to New York University. Permission to publish or reproduce this interview must be secured from the Tamiment Library.

Mary Kolehmainen must approve use of this interview, and wishes to be quoted by name.

Scope and Content Note

Koloehmainen discusses emigration from Finland, the activities of the Socialist Party, and the Finnish women's newspaper.

Interview by Bill Schecter.

Scope and Content Note

Korn discusses the Yiddishe Kultur Farband (YKUF) and the Jewish cultural movement in Los Angeles.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Kravitz discusses the Johnson-Forest Tendency, radical feminism, and activities on the East Coast and in Detroit, from the 1940s-1960s.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Scope and Content Note

Kunin discusses ethnic groups and politics in Bridgeport, Connecticut during the 1920s-1940s.

Interview by Bruce Stave.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Howard August.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Lilja discusses his immigration to the United States and his work as itinerant miner, lumber worker, and fisherman during the 1910s. He also covers the activities of Finnish-American Left in Monessan, Pennsylvania during the 1920s-1950.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the United Electrical Workers Local 431 at the Emerson Electric Company in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Interview by Ruth Prago.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Magil's in Yiddish culture in Philadelphia, life at the Daily Worker in the 1920s, and self-denial of Yiddish cultural activities for "broader field."

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interviews includes discussion of background as high school supporter of Vito Marcantonio in New York and youth leader of Marcantonio movement. Also covered is Magil's work as editor of Communist Italian-language paper, L'Unita and its support in mining regions and cities during the 1940s-1950s. Additionally, the interview covers Magil's retirement to Florida and reflections.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers activities of the Socialist Workers Party during the 1960s-1970s, Maisel's work experience in print shops, and the influence of his parents' radical convictions and activities.

Interview by Claudia Hommel.

Use Restrictions

Release form assigns wide range of rights regarding use to Wayne State University. Please contact Tamiment Library or Wayne State University for more information.

Scope and Content Note

Interview describes Margolin's activities from 1930s-1950s. Topics include the Food Workers Industrial Union, the National Maritime Union, the World War II no-strike pledge, the Communist Party view of Trotskyism, and the Korean War.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects discussed in this interview include the activities of the Socialist Party during the 1930s and the struggle between Communists and Socialists in the Teachers Union.

Scope and Content Note

Includes discussion of Jews in film, Yiddish culture, and the Morgen Freiheit and the  Forward.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers literature in the 1930s, poetry and the the Communist Party's Popular Front strategy, and Left Culture during the Cold War.

Taped responses to written questions from Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Biographical interview with important African American radical, born in 1886. Topics covered include his youth and education, activities as Socialist during the 1910s, involvement with the Communist Party during the 1920s, his period as a "Musteite" during the 1930s and a "Shachtmanite" during the 1940s, the Unemployed Leagues, and A. Philip Randolph.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Discussion by Paul Buhle and Arthur Liebman on Jews and the Left in the United States from 1890-1982, with questions from audience and response.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers unionism and politics in Gary, Indiana during the 1930s-1940s, the relationship between ethnicity and race and nationalism, and the Wisconsin National Farmers Union in the 1950s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Access Restrictions

Interview closed, except with permission of Eva Mizara.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Lithuanian-American radicalism during the 1920s-1960s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Moore's experiences in the Communist Party in Harlem during the 1930s.

Interview by Ruth Prago.

Scope and Content Note

Moskowitz discusses her Hungarian-American background, the activities of the furriers union, the Communist Party, and general reflections.

Interview by Daniel Czitrom.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Beth Haskell.

Scope and Content Note

Nadelman discusses his Yiddish Anarchist origins in Russia, Yiddish Anarchist activities in Los Angeles from the 1920s-1980s, Rudolf Rocker's personality and his circle, the activities of the Arbeter Ring (Workmens' Circle), and fund-raising for victims of Spanish Civil war.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Morris Nadelman and Paul Buhle for this interview were transferred to New York University. Permission to publish or reproduce this interview must be secured from the Tamiment Library.

Direct quotation must be approved by Morris Nadelman.

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Nelson's family history, education and work, and his involvement in the World Socialist Party (formerly Workers Socialist Party and Socialist Educational Society).

Interview by Katherine Brucher.

Scope and Content Note

One DVD interview covering the history of the Pioneers, the Young Communist League, and protests.

Scope and Content Note

Speech on Greek labor and radicalism.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

The interview covers origins of radicalism in Indiana coal mining traditions during the 1910s-1920s, Joseph Norrick's role in 1930s-1940s Left, and perspectives on problems of "Americanizing" Communism in the United States. Ruth Norrick discusses her background in Terre Haute, Indiana, meeting with Eugene Debs, literary life in New York during the 1930s, Cold War-era blacklisting from United Nations Children's agency, and her work in journalism.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Related Archival Materials

Additional content from Joseph and Ruth Norrick was recorded on the second cassette of the Jose Alvarez interview in the Oral History of the American Left (OH 002).

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the Morgen Freiheit and Yiddish literature.

Interview by Paul Buhle

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

O'Brien discusses her background in Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin Trotskyist circle, activities in the 1940s, and her attitude towards C.L.R. James and Johnson-Forest Tendency.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview analyzes the relationship between the Left and dance in the 1930s-1940s, looking at form and content in radicalism and modern dance.

Interview by Richard Wormser.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Theresa Diamond.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Ollman's background in Milwaukee in the 1940s-1950s, radicalism in Madison, Wisconsin, his political activities and intellectual growth in Madison Students League for Industrial Democracy, Students for Democratic Action, and his reflections on the Madison experience.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The release form that Tamiment Library has for this interview does not include transfer of copyright. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from the narrator, Bertell Ollman. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting this individual.

Historical/Biographical Note

Myra Page was a Southern writer and novelist who authored The Gathering Storm and  Moscow Yankee during the 1930s.

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Marvin Gettleman.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes a discussion of Pearl's youth, her relationship with her mother, her mother's influence on her outlook, and her Panamanian/West Indian heritage. She also discusses work in a textile factory while at school, and a brief period in domestic work on Park Avenue in New York. Interview includes her philosophies on activism and struggle. She describes becoming an activist during the 1930s and joining the Communist Party. She also discusses Party actions and CP activity within the needle trades union. Pearl analyzes the nature of conflict within Communist Party leadership, particularly with relation to race and gender. She compares the difference between socialist approach and the CP approach. She concludes with thoughts on feminism, critiques of the Soviet Union, and friendship and family in the CP movement.

Scope and Content Note

Perry discusses women's role in the electrical industry in New Jersey during World War II and the activities of the National Negro Congress. She also discusses the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers (IUE) and provides general reflections.

Interview by Ruth Prago.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Recording of the IWW folk singer recalling experiences from 1940s to 1980s on a WBJC (Baltimore) radio broadcast.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Podmaka discusses her background in coal and steel region of Ohio and West Virginia during the 1930s, experiences at the United Electrical Workers-Hatfield Wire & Cable in New Jersey during the 1940s, and the relationship between the UE and the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists.

Interview by Ruth Prago.

Scope and Content Note

Interview with a program director for Camp Kinderland documents Jewish political and cultural life and includes discussion of activities at the camp and childhood in the Coops, a radical housing complex in the Bronx.

Interview by Daniel Weber.

Related Archival Materials

A transcript of the Ira Polansky interview can be found in the Communist Party of the United States of America Records (TAM 132).

Scope and Content Note

Discussion led by Paul Buhle. Includes A.B. Magil, Steve Max, Steve Nelson, Nat Cohen and others, about the meaning of "culture" to younger generation in the Popular Front; attitudes toward sports, particularly baseball in the Left and in the Daily Worker; and neighborhood activity around cultural themes in New York.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

A collection of lectures from a Albert Prago-coordinated course entitled "The Spanish Civil War and its International Impact," held at the New School for Social Research in the fall of 1981. The lecturers were: Albert Prago (Oct 20, 1981, CD Prago 1-2), John Gerassi (Oct 27, 1981, CD Prago 3-5), Carl Marzani (Nov 3, 1981, CD Prago 6-8), Dante Puzzo (Nov 10, 1981, CD Prago 9-11), Victor Rabinowitz and Albert Prago (Nov 17, 1981, CD Prago 12-14), Maury Colow and Carl Geiser (Nov 24, 1981, CD Prago 15-17), Pete Seeger (Dec 1, 1981, Prago 18-20), and Albert Prago (Dec 8, 1981, CD Prago 20).

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for these recordings. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Preston describes the University of Wisconsin during the early 1950s, the impact of William Appleman Williams and others on historical studies, the Madison social and political milieu, his research on Industrial Workers of the World, and his experiences as a historian.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Rasmussen discusses his political background in the Illinois Socialist Party and Workers Alliance during the late 1920s/early 1930s, his activities within Socialist Party, the formation of the Socialist Workers Party, and expulsion from Socialist Workers Party in 1947.

Interview by Rich Klimmer.

Scope and Content Note

Autobiographical narrative.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the Auto Workers Union during the 1920s through the early 1930s, the political scene in Detroit, and the ethnic communities of auto workers.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding International Workers Order.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers labor activity in the 1930s-1950s, radical film-making from early 1960s, early work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and use of film as educational/fundraising tool. Richard also discusses making films about destruction of redwood trees and the Bay Area Vietnam protest movement.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Rivkin discusses the Yiddish Chorus and broader Yiddishkayt from the 1930s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Romano's involvement in left-wing theater, particularly in the 1930s. Organizations discussed include the Group Theatre, the Federal Theatre, and the Theatre of Action.

Interview by Beth Friend.

Scope and Content Note

Rosenberg discusses the Yiddish cultural movement in Miami Beach from the 1940s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Rosenberg discusses her family background and early life.

Interview by Ruth Prago.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the Hunter College Socialist Party and the broader Socialist Party during the 1930s.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Discussion of literary environment and cultural criticism in the 1930s. Topics include: Masses and Mainstream, the Jefferson School, Realism as dominant style, disagreements between writers and Communist Party, the Party's role in 1930s America, detective stories, and drama. Writers discussed include: Dashiell Hammet, Leane Zugsmith, Ernest Hemingway, Alfred Maltz, Howard Fast, Mike Gold, Richard Wright, and Meridel Le Sueur. The interview heavily focuses on the outlook and intellectual currents of the Left in the 1930s, and some contrasts with the New Left are examined.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Rubinstein describes joining the Communist Party, the activities of the American Labor Party activities, Mike Quill, the Jefferson School, leaving the Communist Party, and her life from the 1950s-1980s.

Interview by Richard Wormser.

Scope and Content Note

Rudiak describes life in small industrial-town Pennsylvania during the 1920s-1930s, his union activities and Left affiliation, electoral campaign and red-baiting during the 1930s, life in Pittsburgh, and work in fraternal societies.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

Release form releases rights regarding use to the Minnesota Historical Society. Please contact Tamiment Library or the Minnesota Historical Society for more information.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the Industrial Workers of the World in Oregon and Washington during the 1910s.

Interview by Tom Copeland.

Scope and Content Note

Santora describes early life in Jersey City, work at Emerson Radio New York, United Electrical Workers staff members helping to organize Federal Telephone and Telegraph, experience at the Westinghouse Elevator Company in New Jersey, and influence of the Left.

Interview by Ruth Prago.

General note

Transcript available, Box 2; Index available

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Saroff's family background in Russia, the 1905 Revolution in Russia, the Rand School of Social Science, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), Camp Unity, and the International Labor Defense during the 1930s.

Per Saroff's request, a portion of the interview, representing audio that was lost between transcription and donation to the Oral History of the American Left, is read from the transcript.

Interview by Arthur Tobier.

Use Restrictions

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by D.B. Schirmer and Bill Schechter for this interview were transferred to New York University. Permission to publish or reproduce this interview must be secured from the Tamiment Library.

Direct quotations from this interview must be approved by D.B. Schirmer.

Scope and Content Note

Topics covered include the National Students' League and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).

Interview by Bill Schecter.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Schwartz's background in Fall River from the 1950s-1960s, his high school radicalization, life and politics in Madison, Wisconsin in the late 1960s, experiences being down and out in California, his return to New England, and his activities in Left from the 1970s-1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes discussion of the Workmen's Circle in Providence, Rhode Island during the 1920s-40s, ethnic socialist groups in Providence, and the activities of the Socialist Party.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Segal discusses music and dance and the Left in the 1930s.

Interview by Bea Lemisch.

Scope and Content Note

Seid discusses her youth in the Yorkville section of New York during the 1920s, cafeteria workers unionism, the Young Communist League, and the Communist Party during the 1940s-1950s.

Interview by Danny Czitrom.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. In release form, narrator granted third parties broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding Workers Party.

Interview by Allen Thompson.

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains Serrano's observations of middle-American culture as a Bohemian in Madison, Wisconsin during the in 1950s. She also discusses her recruitment into the Youth Labor League, her activities in the founding of the Peace Center, attendance at the Peace Festival in Moscow and travels in China, subsequent difficulty in school, Madison, and maintaining contact with friends from her time in Madison.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The release form that Tamiment Library has for this interview does not include transfer of copyright. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from the narrator, Nina Serrano. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting this individual.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. In release form, narrator granted third parties broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Sharron's childhood in Russia and Brownsville, his relationship with his family, his education at the City College of New York, the activities of the Young Communist League, his involvement with Trotskyism, his experiences in Europe, the activities of the Workers Party, and World War II.

Interview by Allen Thompson.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the Socialist Party in Bridgeport, Connecticut during the 1920s-1960s.

Interview by Bruce Stave.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the Communist Party, the activities of the United Office and Professional Workers of America (UOPWA), picketing of the Nazi ship the Bremen, Shore's experiences in Detroit during the the 1940s, the Civil Rights Congress and Progressive Party in Los Angeles during the late 1940s through early 1950s, the effects of McCarthy period on the left, and Shore's work for Local 1199 (Hospital Workers) during the 1960s.

Interview by Priscilla Backman.

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains Simon's reminiscences on Camp Kinderland and a discussion of music and Yiddishkeit.

Interview by Daniel Weber.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents radical legal work in Detroit during the 1960s-1970s (including "Red Squad" lawsuit) and a late 1960s rent strike.

Interview by Dan Georgakas.

Scope and Content Note

Forum on the history of the Southern Negro Youth Congress featuring one-time SNYC activists Henry Winston, James Jackson, Grace Tillman Bassett, Esther Jackson, and Dorothy Burnham.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the Srok's experiences in the Milwaukee Croatian Fraternal Union, 1930s-1980s and his labor activities in Milwaukee during 1930s. Srok also describes his experiences as an amateur Croatian-American actor in Milwaukee.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding Stern's experiences as member of the executive board of Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee from 1944-1950. Second CD and cassette contains 2:56 of unrelated material on first track or side.

Interview by Dorothy Swanson.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Discussion includes comments on Morgen Freiheit,  Yiddishe Kultur, and other Yiddish literary outlets. Interview also includes discussion of prominent Yiddish writers and the relationship between literature, the Jewish left, and the Communist Party.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the Jewish Socialist Federation, the nature of American Communism, and the Lovestoneites.

Scope and Content Note

Suller describes his background in the Jewish progressive movement and discusses the problems of the Morgen Freiheit in the 1980s.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Series of tapes recorded by John Shannon in the course of researching for an unpublished book. Topics covered in this extensive set of interviews include: childhood, travels, Communist activities, analysis of factional splits in the left from the 1920s onward, and reflections on the left at the time of the interview.

Interview by John Shannon.

Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures

Digitization of this interview was not completed, due to the poor quality of the audio and size of the interview. Based on John Shannon's session notes for the interview, these issues likely date to the original recording. Cassettes 246A to 246OO have been digitized. Cassettes 246PP to 246WW have not been digitized.

To request an access copy of materials in the undigitized portion of this interview, please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A librarian will respond to you with further information.

Existence and Location of Originals

Original cassettes were donated to Columbia University's Oral History Research Office by John Shannon, and Columbia University also maintains a copy of the interview.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the Workers Party and the Independent Socialist League in Seattle, Washington during the 1940s-1950s.

Interview by Allen Thompson.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. In release form, narrator granted third parties broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Scope and Content Note

Taffler discusses the activities of the unemployed councils in Brooklyn between 1930 and 1934.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Scope and Content Note

Interview contains the reminiscences of Norman Thomas, the six-time Socialist Party candidate for President.

Interview by Harry Fleischman.

Use Restrictions

REVISIT: Has signed release form, but may not be from necessary contributor. More like deed of gift? May actually pertain to OH 025 or OH 053.

Scope and Content Note

This recording of a reunion includes speakers Ruth Senior, Mickey Most, Herb Wolfe, John Herling, Noah Walter, and Michael Harrington. Speakers share their recollections of Thomas' first presidential campaign and discuss his career and influence overall.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the Workmen's Circle during the 1930s.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Scope and Content Note

Interview includes an analysis of the nature of the language federations attached to Industrial Workers of the World, descriptions of prominent immigrant figures in IWW, and commentary on the eclipse of the language federations and ethnic press in the IWW.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Fred Thompson and Paul Buhle for this interview were transferred to New York University. Permission to publish or reproduce this interview must be secured from the Tamiment Library.

This interview is not to be transcribed without the permission of Fred Thompson.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Thorne's background in Poland, his education as an anarchist, Yiddish anarchism in the United States since the 1920s, the relationship between Yiddish anarchism and Zionism, and Thorne's recollections of Rudolf Rocker.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Tussey's activities with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, the Socialist Party, and the Socialist Workers Party in New Jersey and Southern California from the 1930s through the early 1940s.

Interview by Debra Bernhardt and Jon Bloom.

Scope and Content Note

A recording of a session of a 1983 New York State Labor History Association meeting. Includes a presentation by Roy Rosenzweig, followed by panel discussion with Saul Parker, John Gates, Rose Schuyler, and Brendan Sexton.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the lives of Willard and Ruth MacLennan Uphaus, with a special emphasis on their activities in the 1930s. Topics include their meeting, the intersection of their politics and Christianity, their friendship with Claude Williams, and Socialism.

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers the activities of the Italian Language Federation and the American Communist movement during the 1920s, Chicago and the Left, and Vidali's reflections on American Communism. Translated from the Italian-language Autobiography of Vittorio Vidali, a document on his years in the United States from 1923 to 1927.

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding the Left Poale Zion and the Jewish Labor Committee.

Interview by Gail Malmgreen.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents Wallin's editorial activities from the 1940s-1970s for the Finnish-language paper Tyomies and  Industrilistii,, a Finnish-American newspaper affiliated with the International Workers of the World (IWW).

Interview by Paul Buhle.

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this interview. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from narrator and/or interviewer. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the activities of the Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy and the Jefferson School of Social Science during the 1950s.

Interview by Debby Cohen.

Scope and Content Note

A recording of Mary-Alice Waters' speech titled "Women's Liberation and the Socialist Revolution."

Use Restrictions

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives does not hold a release form for this recording. Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the creator of the materials. Permission to publish or reproduce materials must be secured from copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance in contacting these individuals.

Use Restrictions

Copyright (and related rights of publicity and privacy) are held by the narrator and interviewer. In release form, narrator granted third parties broad rights pertaining to use of these materials. Please contact the Tamiment Library for further information.

Scope and Content Note

Interview regarding Workers Party.

Interview by Allen Thompson.

Scope and Content Note

Interview covers Weiss' family and educational background in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, the unemployed movement and Trotskyist movement during the 1930s-1940s, anti-fascist demonstrations, and her experiences as Socialist Workers Party candidate during the 1940s-1950s.

Interview by Jon Bloom.

Scope and Content Note

Interview documents the role of the Freie Arbeter Shtimme (  Free Voice of Labor) in the labor movement of the 1920s-1930s and describes activities of anarchists within the Arbeter Ring (Workmens' Circle).

Interview by Paul Buhle.