Don McKee and Sol Stetin Interview
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Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Uprising of '34 Collection demonstrates how communities can be impacted in contemporary ways by history and memory, decades after a series of events occur. Veterans of the events of 1934 and their descendants-black, white, mill worker, manager, union, and non-union- were interviewed about mill village life, work conditions, southern contemporaneous culture as well as the strike itself. This finding aid describes the digitized oral history-style interviews available in Georiga State University Library's Digital Collections.
Dates
- Creation: 1987-1995
Creator
- McKee, Don, 1916- (Interviewee, Person)
- Stetin, Sol, 1910-2005 (Interviewee, Person)
Restrictions on Access
All of the interviews are available online in GSU's Digital Collections.
Biographical / Historical
Sol Stetin was a union organizer who organized J.P. Stevens textile company and merged the Textile Workers' Union into the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Don McKee was a union organizer for the Textile Workers Union of America and a professor at Upsala College.
Extent
1 item(s) (video (30:03 duration))
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
Stetin discusses the National Labor Relations Board and the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee. McKee discusses arbitrating labor disputes at Hamrick Mills in Gaffney, S.C. and the impact of the New Deal on labor relations, and working with local organizers.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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