| Interviewee | EVANS, Roy R. (b. 1925) |
| Professions | President, Texas AFL-CIO |
| Employers | Industrial Accident Board of Texas |
| Interview ID # | OHB 0040 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | President, Texas AFL-CIO; hearing examiner and office manager, Industrial Accident Board of Texas. Family background; involvement in labor movement at Chance-Vought Aircraft, 1948; accomplishments as president of Texas AFL-CIO; comments on unsuccessful campaign for re-election; committee work to improve Texas Workers’ Compensation Law, 1967; comments on prominent Texas politicians, trial lawyers, and labor leaders; views on future of Texas labor movement; minorities in labor movement; comments on “Operation Bootstrap” in Rio Grande valley and Mexican alien labor situation; public school teachers union movement; failure of schools to teach worker’s rights classes; views of welfare system; work for Industrial Accident Board of Texas. |
| Interviewer(s) | Floyd Jenkins |
| Physical Description | 54 pp. |
| Terms of Use | Open |
