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Don McKee and Sol Stetin Interview

 Item
Identifier: L1995-13_AV0537

Scope and Contents of the Collection

From 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

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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