Repository: ULS Archives & Special Collections
Title: Electrical Workers of Western Pennsylvania Oral History Project
Collection Number: AIS.1991.15
Extent: 0.21 Linear Feet (1 box)
Date: 1976-1977
Abstract: This collection of cassette tapes contains interviews with electrical workers from the General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, and the Westinghouse plant in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. These interviews contain information about working conditions, discrimination, company resistance to unionization, and the red-baiting of union organizers. The cassettes were copied for the Archives Service Center by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Language: English .
Author: Zachary L. Brodt.
Publisher: ULS Archives & Special Collections
Address: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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History

This collection of cassette tapes contains interviews with electrical workers from the General Electric plant in Erie, Pa., and the Westinghouse plant in East Pittsburgh, Pa. The interviews were conducted by University of Pittsburgh doctoral candidate Ronald W. Schatz in 1976-1977 and used to complete his 1983 book The Electrical Workers: a History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse, 1923-1960. The cassettes were copied for the Archives Service Center by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Scope and Content Notes

These interviews with retired electrical workers contain information about working conditions, discrimination, company resistance to unionization, and the red-baiting of union organizers at the General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, and the Westinghouse plant in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Many of the interviews have been transcribed by the Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh, and are present in Box 1 of the collection.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged alphabetically by the subject's last name.

Access Restrictions

No restrictions.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in 1991.

Previous Citation

Electrical Workers of Western Pennsylvania Oral History Project, 1976-1977, AIS.1991.15, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh

Preferred Citation

Electrical Workers of Western Pennsylvania Oral History Project, 1976-1977, AIS.1991.15, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Zachary L. Brodt in December 2007.

Existence and Location of Originals

The tapes within this collection are copies of the originals which belong to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission of the Pennsylvania State Archives.

Copyright

The University of Pittsburgh holds the property rights to the material in this collection, but the copyright may still be held by the original creator/author. Researchers are therefore advised to follow the regulations set forth in the U.S. Copyright Code when publishing, quoting, or reproducing material from this collection without the consent of the creator/author or that go beyond what is allowed by fair use.

Related Archival Material

The Electrical Workers: a History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse, 1923-1960 by Ronald W. Schatz is available at the Archives Service Center under call number HD8039.E32 U67 1983.

American electrical workers : work, struggles, aspirations, 1930-1950 by Ronald W. Schatz is available at the Archives Service Center in the University Archives Theses.

Separated Material

Cassette tapes of the interviews can be found in Audio Cassette Cabinet 3/5.

Subjects

Corporate Names

United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America

Personal Names

Stasik, Margaret Darin
Winn, William
Yeager, Otto
Rice, Charles Owen
Balent, Marie Downey
Clarke, Maxine
Copeland, Charles E.
Doutt, Anna
Doutt, Norman
Gides, Emery L.
Heberlin, Joseph
Kacsmarek, Hattie
Lehan, Edward
Meer, Rose
Mikalowski, Philip
Modran, George
O'Connor, Patrick
Peeler, William H.
Pugliano, Frank J.
Quinn, Thomas J.
Rath, Eugene
Samokar, Michael
Smith, Alice
Smith, Dave

Geographic Names

Erie (Pa.)
Pittsburgh (Pa.)

Genres

Oral histories (Literary genre)

Other Subjects

Labor
Electric industry workers

Container List

Balent, Marie Downey, March 9, 1977

Containers: box 1, folder 1

Clarke, Maxine, August 17, 1976

Containers: box 1, folder 2

Copeland, Charles E., May 14, 1977

Containers: box 1, folder 3

Heberlin, Joseph, August 8, 1976

Containers: box 1, folder 4

Hill, Edith (pseudonym), August 16, 1976

Containers: box 1, folder 5

Meer, Rose, March 18, 1977

Containers: box 1, folder 6

Mikalowski, Philip (pseudonym), August 17, 1976

Containers: box 1, folder 7

O'Connor, Patrick, May 7, 1977

Containers: box 1, folder 8

Peeler, William H., April 20, 1977

Containers: box 1, folder 9

Quinn, Thomas J., April 14, 1977

Containers: box 1, folder 10

Stasik, Margaret Darin, January 7, 1977

Containers: box 1, folder 11

Yeager, Otto, January 6, 1977

Containers: box 1, folder 12