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Description
Abraham Lincoln Brigade Veteran. Discusses growing up in a pioneer farming family in the Santa Clara Valley; agricultural and orchard work in the 1930s, including labor conditions for bindlestiffs and itinerant agricultural laborers; organizing cannery workers in Campbell. Discusses being recruited to go fight in the Spanish civil war as an Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteer; attitudes toward ""premature anti-fascists""; when they returned home; worked at Moore Dry Dock shipyards in Oakland during World War II, shop steward for machinists' union at Food Machinery Company in San Jose, served in the Navy during World War II, Senior Superintendent of Calabasas, Agricultural Extension Service of the University of California.
Type
sound
Format
Master Audio cassette
Form/Genre
Oral histories
Extent
5 Tapes of 5
Identifier
Oral History Collection csfst_000018_t1; csfst_000018_t2; csfst_000018_t3; csfst_000018_t4; csfst_000018_t5
Language
English
Subject
Agricultural laborers--California--Santa Clara Valley Cannery workers--California Migrant labor--California--Santa Clara Valley Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Participation, American Spain. Eje_rcito Popular de la Repu_blica. Abraham Lincoln Battalion World War, 1939-1945--California--San Francisco Bay Area Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Place
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
Provenance
Labor Archives and Research Center, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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