Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection / Subject name ssim: Washburn, Lester / Topic: Anti-communist movements - Institutions

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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 talks about his interview with Lansing labor leader Lester Washburn, why the UAW-AFL faded as the UAW-CIO grew successful, why the anti-Communist campaign within labor was useful to the Reuthers, his time in the newspaper guild, the corruption scandals which rocked the UAW-AFL, and how the name Allied Industrial Workers was chosen when the AFL and CIO merged in the 1950s. Part 5 of 7.
Date Issued:: 2015-12-08T00:00:00Z
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 talks about his interview with Lansing labor leader Lester Washburn, why the UAW-AFL faded as the UAW-CIO grew successful, why the anti-Communist campaign within labor was useful to the Reuthers, his time in the newspaper guild, the corruption scandals which rocked the UAW-AFL, and how the name Allied Industrial Workers was chosen when the AFL and CIO merged in the 1950s. Part 5 of 7.
Date Issued:: 2015-12-08T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

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