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STOW, Rick

1989-0417

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1988-06-22

Rick Stow (Interviewer)

interviewer, Thato Bereng

Interview with Clarence S. Jackson, former trade union leader with the United Electrical Workers (UE). Topics treated: tenure as UE president, history of unionism in Canada, British roots, early guilds, affinity with U.S., cross-border jobs and U.S. domination, autonomy issue, UE and the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), opposition of General Electric to UE, McCarthyism, Canadian autonomy, UE and social issues, St. Lawrence seaway issue, craft and industrial unions, CIO vs American Federation of Labour (AFL) in U.S., President Roosevelt & labour, Canadian labour law, no-strike policy, Peter Pocklington, Marxist critique of Western laws, class co-option in U.S., reactionary times, effect of war on labour legislation, origins of Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Communist Party of Canada, New Democratic Party as capitalist, social democracy in power, charges against Jackson, IWW and OBU, effectiveness of UE, Bob White, publicity, personal successes, Dave Werlin.

English

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