Childhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; family background; Brooklyn College B.A., 1936; first job at Gimbel's, 1930; full-time position at City College's Registrar's Office, 1936; involvement with Young Communist League in Boro Park; active involvement in College Teacher's Union; anti-fascist association in mid-1930s; Nazi-Soviet Pact; formed the band, "Suspended Swing," 1941; joined the staff of Loca l 1250, 1947; a member of 1199 in 1952 until retirement in 1982; National Convention, 1957; first experience in film-making, The 1199 Story, 1957; "Harvest of Shame;" Montefiore, 1958; the hospital legislation; march on Washington, D.C., 1963; Beth-El Strike; Bronxville Strike, April, 1965; AFL-CIO Convention, 1967; First National Labor Conference against the war, Chicago, 1968; Charleston Strike, 1969; Executive of Bread and Roses since 1978; Executive Secretary of National Hospitals' Union, 1982-1983; worked for the Local 342 in January, 1983; mergers of the unions, April, 1983; Dorris Turner Campaign, 1984; the hospital unions' strike on eve of the Democratic Party Convention, 1984. There are two versions of the Foner transcript available. An initial version was done in 1989, and microfiche was created from this. A new version was created and published online in 2006 as part of the Notable New Yorkers digital project. This version adds the sessions from 2001 and featured considerable editing of content that was in the earlier version
Labor unions--United States; Labor unions--Officials and employees; Hospitals--Employees; Hospitals--Administration; Hospitals--Law and legislation; Collective bargaining--Hospitals; Documentary films; Teachers' unions; Motion pictures--Production and direction; Strikes and lockouts; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements; United States Politics and government 1945-1989; Foner, Moe, 1915-; AFL-CIO; Germany; Treaties, etc
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1986-2001
Physical Description
901 pages; 859 pages
Note (Biographical)
Labor union organizer
Note
Interviewed by Robert Master between August 21, 1984 and September 29, 1986. Interviewed by Dan North on February 26, March 5, March 7, and March 9, 2001
This interview is featured in Columbia University Libraries’ Notable New Yorkers website. Notable New Yorkers was a project of Columbia University Libraries Digital Program. The original website was developed by Columbia University Digital Knowledge V entures and published in 2006