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OHB 0035

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeBARTON, Sam (b. 1906)
ProfessionsEmeritus professor of economics
EmployersUniversity of North Texas

About this oral history

Interview ID #OHB 0035
Date(s) of interview -
DescriptionEmeritus professor of economics, University of North Texas. Family background; educational experiences at the University of Texas, Austin; membership in League for Industrial Democracy; winter lambing in West Texas; experiences during the Great Depression; view of economics and sociology department at North Texas, 1939; experiences in U.S. Army training camps and Pacific Theater during World War II; organization of AAUP, CCTA, and TACT on North Texas campus; activities in field of workmen’s compensation; work of Fred Schmidt in CIO and AFL-CIO; activities in redrafting of Texas Workmen’s Compensation Law, 1957; work of Jerry Holloman in AFL-CIO; research, consultant, and organizational activities; comments about labor arbitrator Byron Abernethy; highlights of career at University of North Texas.
Interviewer(s)Fred Gantt, Floyd Jenkins
Physical Description168 pp.
Terms of UseOpen