Labor leader Ken Germanson talks with Michigan State University Labor and Industrial Relations Professor Emeritus John Revitte via telephone. Part 3
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 and Revitte discuss topics to cover in future calls and then Germanson talks about the WLHS, its mission, and his involvement. Germanson talks "Bay View massacre" in Milwaukee in May 1886 and how the WLHS has raised awareness about this piece of Wisconsin labor history. He also describes other WLHS efforts and explains why he is so active in the organization. Germanson talks about his family and his father's job in a tannery, and his own work experience as a newspaper writer and a union activist with the International Newspaper Guild. Part 3 of 7.
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- In Collections
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2015-11-12
- Interviewees
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Germanson, Kenneth
- Interviewers
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Revitte, John
- Recordist
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Vincent Voice Library
- Subjects
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Germanson, Kenneth
Wisconsin Labor History Society
Families
Journalists
Labor
Labor leaders
Strikes and lockouts
Wisconsin
Wisconsin--Milwaukee
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 01:01:51
- Venue Note
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Recorded 2015 November 12
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 40215
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b13054006
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