Oral Histories
Interview of Wyndham Mortimer
Vice-president of the United Automobile Workers union and member of the Communist Party.
- Subtitle:
- Reflections of a Labor Organizer
- Series:
- Interviews not in a series, part one
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor Movement
- Biographical Note:
- Vice-president of the United Automobile Workers union and member of the Communist Party.
- Interviewee:
- Mortimer, Wyndham
- Supporting Documents:
- Records related to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.
- Interviewer Background and Preparation:
- The interview was conducted by Elizabeth I. Dixon, Head, UCLA Oral History Program; B.A., international relations, University of Southern California: M.L.S., UCLA School of Library Service.
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
- Abstract:
- Father's activities in Knights of Labor; life in Pennsylvania company town; working in coal mines, 1900-1905; employment at White Motor, 1917; organizing federal union at White Motor, 1933; fight for international industrial unionization; activities of Trade Union Unity League; union organizing at General Motors plants; sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan; court injunctions and police activity; John L. Lewis, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Frances Perkins; factional struggles within Congress of Industrial Organizations; unionizing aircraft industry in California and Washington; effect of red-baiting on labor movement; working for State, County, and Municipal Workers of America and International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers in Los Angeles during World War II; Walter P. Reuther; reflections on past and present labor issues.