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Walsh, Bill - Interview

Item number (ISN):

471402

Series title:

Cecil-Ross Society Oral History Project

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1996-06-15

Item number (ISN):

471402

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CECIL-ROSS SOCIETY

Accession:

2001-0188

Media:

Sound

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1996-06-15

Production company:

Rick Stow (Interviewer)

Sponsor:

Cecil-Ross Society

Description:

Interview of Bill Walsh by Rick Stow. Bill was born in Montreal, 1910 into a family with 7 surviving children. His brother Sam is also a Left activist. Dad was a Liberal who published a Yiddish paper. In 1929 Bill worked in New York with his friend, Dick Steele. They bought jobs on a ship to Europe, then walked from Denmark to the USSR, working for meals. The pair became politicized shortly after arriving. They got jobs in a tractor factory in Belarus. In 1935 he went to Toronto to work for the Workers Union League (WUL). Bill first became a union organizer with the WUL, then a Party organizer. <260m>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. IDC originally created by Rick Stow.~2. For copyright details see standard purchase agreement in acquisition file signed 2001.~3. Transcript available.

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Vault ISN:

934007

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

43680AV
43681AV
43687AV

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

1010432

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

471402-43680AV-1.WAV
471402-43680AV-2.wav
471402-43681AV-1.wav
471402-43681AV-2.wav
471402-43687AV-1.wav
471402-43687AV-2.wav

Number of items:

6

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

287:00

Made from:

43680AV
43681AV
43687AV

Status:

MASTER
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Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Original copyright owner: Cecil-Ross Society~Copyright owner: Library and Archives Canada

Reproduction access:

With written permissions

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