Interview of former Michigan State University trustee and AFL-CIO board member Don Stevens. Part 1
Don Stevens, former Michigan State University trustee and AFL-CIO board member, reminisces about his childhood, family, farming, his early education, and his experiences with labor unions and union organizing. Stevens talks about his early work life, hearing about unions during the auto sit-down strikes in 1936 and 1937, listening to radio preachers condemn unions, and failed attempts to unionize a laundry where he worked and later success in organizing dairy and retail workers in the Grand Rapids area in the 1940s. Stevens also discusses CIO leadership during the war, union political efforts regarding health and safety, unemployment insurance, higher wages, and seniority rights and his own involvement in the growing union movement and labor organizing. Stevens is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations. Part one of four.
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- In Collections
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 1983-02-08
- Interviewees
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Stevens, Don
- Interviewers
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Revitte, John
- Subjects
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Stevens, Don
AFL-CIO
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Labor laws and legislation
Labor unions
Learning and scholarship
Political participation
Michigan--Grand Rapids
United States
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 02:08:47
- Venue Note
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Recorded 1983 February 8.
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 30651
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b11867625
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