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MF 127 Labor Relations Project
Number of
Interviews: 5
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1974
Time period covered: twentieth century
Principal interviewers: Charles O’Leary, Kevin Madigan
Finding Aides: brief indexes
Access Restrictions: none
Description: This is a series of five interviews conducted in
the spring and summer of 1994 , one by Charles O'Leary and four by
Kevin Madigan. Focus of the interviews include labor unions, right
to work laws, strikes, featherbedding, union negotiations, State
Labor Council, labor-management relations, carpenters, boot and shoe
workers, women in industry, and relations between the international
and the locals of individual unions.
976 O’Leary, Charles. Spring 1974. Maine: Augusta. 4 pp.
Tape: 1/4 hr. w/ cat. Interview with Gov. Reed about Ben
Dorsky, right-to-work laws, labor appointments. T976
977 Madigan, Kevin. June 1974. Maine: Brewer. 12 pp. Tape: 1
hr. w/ cat. Interview with John MacDonald, business agent for
PPF Local 321, about the union and experiences since joining,
changes in labor management relations from 1960’s to 1974. T977
978 Madigan, Kevin. Summer 1974. Maine: Waterville. 10 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Interview with Hollis A. Ward about
offices held in the union, strikes, and union organization. T978
980 Madigan, Kevin. Summer 1974. Maine: Brewer. 6 pp. Tape: 1
hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Ken Wormell about union
activities, strikes, walkouts, relations between carpenters and
other building trades, State Labor Council, featherbedding,
negotiating. T980
981 Madigan, Kevin. Summer 1974. Maine: Skowhegan. 6 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with John Ezhaya about
union activities, organizing, benefits, labor management relations,
Boot and Shoe workers, women in the industry, relationship between
the International and the locals. T981
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