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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
- Description:
- At a Michigan State University "study away" class held in Washington, D.C., Elmer Chatak, former secretary-treasurer of the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO, talks about his father, who was one of the first full-time organizers for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) and his own introduction to the labor movement. Chatak also talks about his career as a union organizer, the many positions he held in the AFL-CIO, and how unions and union locals are formed. He takes questions from the class.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- 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
- Description:
- At a Michigan State University "study away" class held in Washington, D.C., Elmer Chatak, former secretary-treasurer of the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO, talks about his father, who was one of the first full-time organizers for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) and his own introduction to the labor movement. Chatak also talks about his career as a union organizer, the many positions he held in the AFL-CIO, and how unions and union locals are formed. He takes questions from the class.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection