Labor leader Ken Germanson talks with Michigan State University Labor and Industrial Relations Professor Emeritus John Revitte via telephone. Part 5
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 talks about his interview with Lansing labor leader Lester Washburn, why the UAW-AFL faded as the UAW-CIO grew successful, why the anti-Communist campaign within labor was useful to the Reuthers, his time in the newspaper guild, the corruption scandals which rocked the UAW-AFL, and how the name Allied Industrial Workers was chosen when the AFL and CIO merged in the 1950s. Part 5 of 7.
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- In Collections
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2015-12-08
- Interviewees
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Germanson, Kenneth
- Interviewers
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Revitte, John
- Subjects
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Germanson, Kenneth
Washburn, Lester, 1906-1992
International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (A.F. of L.)
International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)
International Union, Allied Industrial Workers of America
Anti-communist movements
Corruption
Labor leaders
Labor unions and communism
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United States
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:57:20
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 40245
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b13054008
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