- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Solomon Barkin and Sol Stetin Interviews
- Creator:
- Barkin, Solomon, 1907-2000
Stetin, Sol - Contributor to Resource:
- Cavanaugh, Jim
- Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile workers--Labor unions
Textile workers
African Americans--Civil rights
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
United Textile Workers of America - People:
- Barkin, Solomon, 1907-2000
- Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
audio cassettes - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- 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.
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. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0071
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/442
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Solomon Barkin and Sol Stetin, interviewed by Jim Cavanaugh, no date. L1995-13_AV0071, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 00:57:59
- Original Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
The Uprising of '34 Collection
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/472 - Contributing Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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