OHB 0040 | Oral History

OHB 0040

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.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 54 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Floyd Jenkins
Date of Interview May 16, 1980

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