Adair, Goldthwaite, Stanford and Daniel

Abstract: Adair, Goldthwaite, Stanford and Daniel were attorneys for union members. Their records contain the discharge cases and arbitration transcripts that resulted from the strike of the Communications Workers of America against Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1955-1956; legal case files involving the strike of the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Local 748 versus the Jefferson City (Tennessee) Cabinet Company (a division of the Magnavox Company),...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Marcia Fishman: Stanford discusses his family background, the death of his father in 1923, and his widowed mother raising three children during the Great Depression. He talks about his military service—the West Indies, Antigua, the British West Indies, and being wounded outside of Luxembourg. He also discusses the cases he argued while in the employment of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), especially the Hapt Brothers’ strike and court case, and the Stilley Plywood...