Oral history of Ernest DeMaio, head of the United Electrical Workers Midwest District 11 Oral history of Ernest DeMaio, from his early radicalizing experience of the First…
The ordeal of the Loyalty Test: Arthur Drayton An account from Arthur Drayton, a black postal worker and unionist who faced repression for his membership in a a Communist Party USA-affiliated…
“A square deal?”: the Michigan CIO debates the no-strike pledge Selections from minutes of a 1943 Michigan CIO convention, debating the 'no-strike pledge' during…
“The man . . . died on my lap”: one women recalls the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937 The testimony of Lupe Marshall to a U.S. Senate committee on the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, a day…
The big strike: a journalist describes the 1934 San Francisco strike - Mike Quin Mike Quin, a self-described “rank-and-file journalist,” offered a sympathetic picture of the…
