AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville.
An interview with Marton Adler, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Marton Adler was born in 1929 and lived in a Czechoslovakian town called Volové. When the war…
An interview with Martin Shlanger, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Born in Vel'ke Kapusany, Czechoslovakia, Mr. Shlanger moved to Budapest in 1942 to work in a…
An interview with Martin Koby, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Martin Koby was born in Rovno, Poland in 1930. During the 1930s, Martin along with his mother,…
Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews…
This interview was conducted in two parts. Part I explores how Martin Grayson was introduced to unionism by his father, a member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Grayson joined the Amalgamated Lithographers of America, Local One in 1936 as a…
A series of interviews conducted between 1985 and 1998 with eighteen IEB members covering their UAW careers and important events in the history of the union. Some interviews may contain correspondence and releases. UAW logo die from the bindery is…
An interview with Martin Adler, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan--Dearborn. Martin Adler was born in 1929 in Volové, a village in Subcarpathian Ruthania. He was the oldest…