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CANADIAN UNION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES / SYNICAT CANADIEN DE LA FONCTION PUBLIQUE

1978-0005

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1977-12-06

Gil Levine (Interviewer)

An interview of Patrick Lenihan, former president of the National Union of Public Employees, by Gil Levine, Research Director of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, about Lenihan's internment in Hull; WWII; attitudes towards war; Lenihan's release; the Labour Progressive Movement; Lenihan's attempt to join the army; Lenihan as a civic employee; Lenihan as provincial organiser of the communists in Alberta; his problems with alcohol; factions within the Communist Party; Lenihan's expulsion from the Communist Party in January 1945; his commitment to community involvement; Anne Lenihan's expulsion from the Communist Party; municipal politics and Lenihan's involvement in Calgary's municipal politics; his participation in the election of a CCF mayor; Lenihan as a member of Calgary Labour Council; the trade union movement amongst civic employees; Lenihan's involvement; the Federation of Civic Employees of Calgary; Lenihan as president of Local 37; and relations with the TLC. <2h>

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