Labor leader Ken Germanson talks with Michigan State University Labor and Industrial Relations Professor Emeritus John Revitte via telephone

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Ken Germanson, Allied Industrial Workers international union staff member, AIW newspaper editor, and president of the Wisconsin Labor History Society (WLHS), talks with Michigan State University Labor and Industrial Relations Professor Emeritus John Revitte via telephone. Germanson and Revitte discuss topics to cover in future calls and then Germanson talks about the WLHS, its mission, and his involvement. Germanson talks "Bay View massacre" in Milwaukee in May 1886 and how the WLHS has raised awareness about this piece of Wisconsin labor history. He also describes other WLHS efforts and explains why he is so active in the organization. Germanson talks about his family and his father's job in a tannery, and his own work experience as a newspaper writer and a union activist with the International Newspaper Guild. Part 3 of 7.

Date Issued:

2015-11-12T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Place:

Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Wisconsin

Subject Topic:

Family, Labor leaders, Strikes and lockouts, Labor, History, Journalists, and Labor leaders

Subject Name:

Germanson, Kenneth, Germanson, Kenneth, and Wisconsin Labor History Society

Subject Genre:

Interviews and Interviews

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5765br40