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Solomon Barkin and Sol Stetin Interviews

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Stetin, Sol

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Barkin discusses the history of the labor movement, how the organizing tactics that worked did not work in the South, and other topics.Stetin discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, the United Textile Workers conventions of 1934 and 1936, his organizing work, and other topics.Solomon Barkin was a member of the Labor Advisory Board for the Nation Recovery Administration (NRA). He later became the director of research for the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union.Sol Stetin was a union organizer who organized J.P. Stevens textile company and merged the Textile Workers' Union into the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union.
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Cavanaugh, Jim
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