An oral history interview conducted with Ernest DeMaio, one of the founders of the United Electrical and Radio Workers Union (UE).
CONTENTS
-Early life
-Organizing the unemployed
-Depression
-A.F.L. in the '30's
-Organizing Machinists
-Organizing Electrical Workers
-Radical Politics in the '30s
-Organizing the C.I.O.
-Red Baiting the C.I.O.
-American opposition to Fascism
-Post World War II
-Organizing Steelworkers
-Red Baiting by C.I.O. Leaders
-Alliance for Labor Action
-U.E.'s Relations with other unions
-U.E.'s position in the Labor Movement
-Support for Humphrey, 1940's
-Organizing in Chicago
-Battle for leadership in union and local politics
-Operation Dixie
Files
Ernest DeMaio.pdf
(2.2 MB)
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