The reminiscences of John W. Edelman
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Labor representative. Topics include: education; early experiences on fringes of Socialist movement; condition of hosiery workers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania during the late 1920 and the Depression: role of hosiery workers union in the American Federation of Labor; AFL conventions; beginnings of Textile Workers Union of America; its role in the Congress of Industrial Organizations; influence of Communist Party in the CIO; merger of the CIO and the AFL; impressions of men and women prominent in the labor movement.
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Donald Francis Shaughnessy
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John W. Edelman
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Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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