Task 1 for the Union Organizer: Identify Leaders

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-7
Keyword(s):  
Union Organizer

My Life as a Newfoundland Union Organizer: The Memoirs of Cyril W. Strong, 1912-1987

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 296
Author(s):  
Eric W. Sager ◽  
Cyril W. Strong ◽  
Gregory S. Kealey
Keyword(s):  
Union Organizer

Dreaming in the Delta

Meridians ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (S1) ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Kristal Brent Zook
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Working Class ◽  
White Male ◽  
Processing Plant ◽  
Working Mother ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Union Organizer ◽  
Working Class Women

Abstract In 1990, in Indianola, Mississippi, there was a catfish-processing plant owned by 178 White male farmers. The workforce inside the plant was ninety percent Black and female. Led by an ordinary working mother turned union organizer named Sarah White, the women at Delta Pride led the largest strike of Black laborers ever to take place in that state, and won. Kristal Brent Zook, an award-winning journalist, traveled to Indianola to meet with White and others in an effort to understand the plight of working class women in the modern-day South. What she found there taught her as much about herself, as it did about human rights and dignity in America today.

Jones, Mary Harris “Mother”

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne "Rocky" Delaplaine
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Union Organizer ◽  
Working People ◽  
United Mine Workers ◽  
United Mine ◽  
Mine Workers

Mary Harris “Mother” Jones (1830–1930) was a union organizer for the United Mine Workers of America and was known for her tireless efforts to improve the lives of working people and raising public awareness of the issues of child labor.

One Man's Education: A Testimony to Internationalism

1985 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-109
Author(s):  
Bill Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Union Organizer ◽  
Republican Government ◽  
The U.S

Bill Bailey was working as a union organizer in Hawaii in 1936 when the Spanish Civil War broke out. Fascist troops led by Franco rebelled against Spain's democratically elected Republican government. The U.S. government declared a policy of nonintervention that prohibited the shipment of arms to the Republican Loyalists and banned travel to Spain. This policy contributed to the Fascist cause and outraged many Americans, including Bailey. Early in 1937, Bailey joined a group of American volunteers forming the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, an unpaid and nonprofessional troop of men and women who chose to fight with the International Brigade alongside the Republican Loyalists. In this article, the complexity of internationalism is expressed through Bailey's commitment to support the Spanish democracy, a decision in which he places the international cause of fighting fascism above his nation's choice not to participate. Bailey shares his memories of that period and describes his reasons for choosing the path that led him to Spain.

Interview with Todd Haynes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob White
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Private Business ◽  
Radio Communications ◽  
Abstract Expressionist ◽  
Todd Haynes ◽  
Union Organizer ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Military

Distillation of three phone interviews conducted by the author on November 3 and 22, 2011, and April 17, 2012.ROB WHITE:What is your family background?TODD HAYNES:My mom, Sherry Lynne Haynes, came from a middle-class Jewish family in Los Angeles. Her father, Arnold Semler, whom I called Bompi, and mother, Blessing, whom I called Monna, were a very supportive aspect of my upbringing. Bompi had worked in Warner Bros., starting as a messenger boy, becoming head of set construction. He was a union organizer and was close to many of the blacklisted figures in midcentury Hollywood. He left the studio in the later 1940s and set up a private business with his brother, making radio-communications devices for the military. He became very successful in the 1950s and ’60s. Monna studied harp and piano, and then when she was about fifty started painting in an abstract expressionist style. She was very progressive, went into psychoanalysis in the 1950s, and ...

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