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The collections listed below are only a portion of the sound recordings held by the Southern Labor Archives, and additional collections are added on a continuing basis.  For a complete listing of collections, contact the Labor Archivist.

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W.J. Usery, Jr. (right) maintaining machinery at the Armstrong Cork Company, Macon, Georgia, ca. 1952.

W. J. Usery, Jr. describes joining the International Association of Machinists in 1952, Oral history interview with Les Hough, July 28, 1987 [Usery Oral History / Tape 10].   Listen to this recording. (RealAudio Format .... 16380 bytes .... 45 seconds)   "I signed my card and by signing my card I gave a lot of other people the guts to sign theirs you understand …And then we had a lot of skilled people who had been members of unions before, you know, craft people, and IAM is an AF of L union it's not as you ... you could even overcome that thinking that people said the CIO was commie and red and all the other things they were saying about the CIO at that time… So, we filed, the Machinists filed a petition for a bargaining unit of maintenance employees to carve out a unit."

Collection List by Accession Number

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Eula McGill Interview, 1974

Format: Cassette
Length:  60 min.
Number of items: 5
Accession Number: L1972-48

Author: Googe, George Logan, 1900-1961.
Title: George L. Googe papers, 1946-1961.
Recording Title: In Memory of Bob Weylor (Speech)

Format: Reel to Reel
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1972-80

Author: Googe, George Logan, 1900-1961.
Title: George L. Googe papers, 1946-1961.
Recording Title: George Googe, In Memory of Bob Weylor

Format: Cassette
Length: 60 min.
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1972-80

Author: Googe, George Logan, 1900-1961.
Title: George L. Googe papers, 1946-1961.
Recording Title: (1-4) President Truman, 1943
Recording Title: (5-7) Mike Widman, UMW [United Mine Workers]
Recording Title: (8,9) Frank Fenton,  AFL [American Federation of Labor]
Recording Title: (10-12) Senator Wayne Morse, 1946
Recording Title: (13) Secretary Meany / Frank Fenton
Recording Title: (14) Secretary Meany
Recording Title: (15) James Barrett

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 15
Accession Number: L1972-80

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Recording Title: IBEW, Proposed Pension Plan

Format: Reel to Reel
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1973-29

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Mill Life, 1971

Format: Reel to Reel
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1973-48

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: (1) Excerpts from President Beirne's Press Conference, 1971
Recording Title: (2) CWA Membership Meeting, 1971
Recording Title: (3) President Beirne Set the Strike Date, 1971
Recording Title: (4) President Beirne Announces the End of Strike, 1971
Recording Title: (5) AFL-CIO and President [Richard] Nixon, 1972
Recording Title: (6) President Beirne and Value Added Tax, 1972
Recording Title: (7) Glenn Watts no the Packwood Bill, 1972
Recording Title: (8) President Beirne and Legislative Conference, 1972
Recording Title: (9) President Beirne on "Campaign 72", 1972
Recording Title: (10) Politics and Your Contract, 1972
Recording Title: (11) Merger: Its Impact on Bargaining, 1972


Format: Reel to Reel
Length:
Number of items: 11
Accession Number: L1973-59

Author: AFL-CIO Region 8.
Title: AFL-CIO Region 8 Records, 1933-1969.
Recording Title: George Meany Speaking on Bakery and Confectionery Workers, 1957

Format: Reel to Reel
Length:
Number of items: 2
Accession Number: L1974-15

Author: AFL-CIO Region 8.
Title: AFL-CIO Region 8 Records, 1933-1969.
Recording Title: (1,2) Working On The Railroads, 1962
Recording Title: (3-5) CIO Political Action Committee
Recording Title: (6) Image of History: 20 Years of the CIO
Recording Title: (7) An Important Message to James R. Heidleberg
Recording Title: (8-13) CIO Series 3: Songs From the Old Hymnal, 1950
Recording Title: (14-20) Bill Strength CIO Program, 1950
Recording Title: (21-26) CIO Interview Series
Recording Title: (27) Political Action Committee
Recording Title: (28) Textile Union Speech, CIO
Recording Title: (29) Up and Atom
Recording Title: (30) The Almanac of Freedom
Recording Title: (31-35) CIO Enka Strike Program, 1950
Recording Title: (36) Mr. Fraud, The Right-To-Wreck Man
Recording Title: (37) Unemployment Compensation
Recording Title: (38) Wages and National Economy

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 38
Accession Number: L1974-15

Author: Fred Kupfer
Title:
Recording Title: AFL Southern Drive, 1946

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1974-32

Author: Charles Mathias
Title:
Recording Title: United Steelworkers of America, 1952

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1975-21

Author: Atlanta Labor Council
Title:
Recording Title: A Personal Message, H.I. Romnes

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1975-21

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Carmen Lucia, July 28, 1976 [6 cassettes]
Recording Title: Carmen Lucia, August 5, 1976 [2 cassettes]

Format: Cassette
Length: 60 min. each
Number of items: 8
Accession Number: L1976-32

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Recording Title: Joe Garrison, Interview with Myles Horton, April 1, 1976

Format: Cassette
Length: 60 min.
Number of items: 3
Accession Number: L1976-36

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Title:
Recording Title: Vera Rony, Florence King Luncheon  [2 cassettes]
Recording Title: Sol Stetin Interview [2 cassettes, restricted]
Recording Title: Nick Zonarich Interview [2 cassettes, restricted]

Format: Cassette
Length: 60 min. each
Number of items: 6
Accession Number: L1976-38

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Title:
Recording Title: Laundry Workers Local 217, June 26, 1974

Format: Cassette
Length:
Number of items: 2
Accession Number: L1976-45

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Title:
Recording Title: Elizabeth Nord, The Textile Industry, November 12, 1975

Format: Cassette
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1977-7

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Recording Title: Richmond Typographical Union, Local #90, Newspaper Strike, April 1971

Format: Cassette
Length: 60 min.
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1977-12

Author: South Carolina Nurses Association
Title:
Recording Title: Special Nurse Recruitment Program, "A Lesson In the Rain" with Helen Hayes

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1977-37

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: (1) Lester Maddox on Labor
Recording Title: (2) Herb Mabry, The Role of the State Federation of Labor

Format: Cassette
Length: 90 min. each
Number of items: 2
Accession Number: L1978-11

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Title:
Recording Title: W.J. Scott Interview, Atlanta Public School Teachers' Association, August 23, 1977

Format: Cassette
Length:
Number of items: 2
Accession Number: L1978-24

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: WRFG, Working on the Railroad

Format: Cassette
Length: 60 min. each
Number of items: 24
Accession Number: L1978-27

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Georgia State AFL-CIO

Format: Reel to Reel
Length:
Number of items: 3
Accession Number: L1978-29

Author: Carpenters Local 696, 1892 - 1971
Title:
Recording Title: (1-4) Labor Speech, Dr. Frantz, AFL
Recording Title: (5-9) Labor Speech, Senator Claude Pepper

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 9
Accession Number: L1979-3

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Atlanta Fire Fighters Union Meeting

Format: Reel to Reel
Length:
Number of items: 4
Accession Number: L1979-8

Author: Roy Berkeley
Title:
Recording Title: Folk and Country Songs of the FDR Years, Roy Berkeley

Format: Reel to Reel
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1979-23

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Stetson Kennedy - Folk Songs

Format: Reel to Reel
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1979-37

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Recording Title: (1) APWA, Georgia Postal Workers Convention, June 23, 1978
Recording Title: (2) E.C. Griner Interview

Format: Cassette
Length:
Number of items: 2
Accession Number: L1979-38

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: (1) American Labor History, Labor and Organizing
Recording Title: (2) American Labor History, Labor and Taft Hartley
Recording Title: (3) American Labor History, Labor and Communism, 1949 CIO Convention
Recording Title: (4) American Labor History, AFL-CIO Merger / REAW Split
Recording Title: (5) American Labor History, McClellan Committee and Teamster Expulsion
Recording Title: (6) American Labor History, Labor and Civil Rights
Recording Title: (7) American Labor History, Labor and the War Effort
Recording Title: (8) American Labor History, Labor and Foreign Policy
Recording Title: (9) American Labor History, Early Social Issues and Labor

Format: Cassette
Length:
Number of items: 9
Accession Number: L1979-41

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Title:
Recording Title: Louisiana Anti-Right to Work Campaign, Walter Davis, 1974

Format: Cassette
Length: 60 min.
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1980-13

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Title:
Recording Title: (1) AFL-CIO IUD Department, Aberdeen, N.C.
Recording Title: (2) AFL-CIO IUD Department, Mr. Gregory / G.G. Walker, February 17, 1975
Recording Title: (3) AFL-CIO IUD Department, Gordon Walker, Februrary 17, 1975, Carolina Unions
Recording Title: (4) AFL-CIO IUD Department, Jack McGill, November 19, 1973
Recording Title: (5) AFL-CIO IUD Department, Unidentified
Recording Title: (6) AFL-CIO IUD Department, Andrew Young, Roanoke Rapids, N.C., August 25, 1974
Recording Title: (7) AFL-CIO IUD Department, Harold McIver, Roanoke Rapids, N.C.,  / Mr. Gregory
Recording Title: (8) AFL-CIO IUD Department, General Steel, High Point, N.C.
Recording Title: (9) AFL-CIO IUD Department, USWA District 37 Conference, April 1, 1979
Recording Title: (10) AFL-CIO IUD Department, August 23, 1974
Recording Title: (11) AFL-CIO IUD Department, Harold McIvor, Aberdeen, N.C.
Recording Title: (12) AFL-CIO IUD Department, Ralph Abernathy, October 7, 1978, W.W. Finlator
Recording Title: (13) AFL-CIO IUD Department, Harold McIvor, Roanoke Rapids, N.C.

Format: Cassette
Length:
Number of items: 16
Accession Number: L1981-17

Author: Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
Title:
Recording Title: The Story of Henderson and the Henderson Workers Sing

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1981-18

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Title:
Recording Title: United Brotherhood of Carpenters, Centennial Project

Format: Cassette
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1982-17

Author: Joe Glazer Collection
Title:
Recording Title: (1) Joe Glazer Sings Labor Songs
Recording Title: (2) Joe Glazer Sings - Garbage
Recording Title: (3) Textile Voices, Songs and Stories of the Mill
Recording Title: (4) Down in a Coal Mine
Recording Title: (5) Singing BRAC

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 5
Accession Number: L1982-21

Author: Si Kahn Collection
Title:
Recording Title: Home

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1982-22

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: CBS Contemporary Quotations

Format: Cassette
Length: 60 min. each
Number of items: 10
Accession Number: L1982-23

Author:
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Recording Title: GSU History Club Presentation, 1973

Format: Reel to Reel
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1982-29

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Clyde Johnson, 1976

Format: Reel to Reel
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1982-30

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1976

Format: Reel to Reel
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1982-31

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: George Meany - Labor Day Message, 1965

Format: Reel to Reel
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1982-32

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: (1) National Public Radio, Education for and about Workers
Recording Title: (2) National Public Radio, Elderly and Work
Recording Title: (3) National Public Radio, Beware of the Boss:  Sexual Harrassment
Recording Title: (4) National Public Radio, Battle in the Sweat Shops
Recording Title: (5) National Public Radio, Making Ends Meet
Recording Title: (6) National Public Radio, Women Who Wove
Recording Title: (7) National Public Radio, The Carpenters
Recording Title: (8) National Public Radio, Drudging: Sailing the Chesapeake
Recording Title: (10) National Public Radio, Worksongs
Recording Title: (11) National Public Radio, Lane Kirkland
Recording Title: (12) National Public Radio, American Auto Industry
Recording Title: (13) National Public Radio, Women in the Coal Mines

Format: Cassette
Length:
Number of items: 20
Accession Number: L1982-37

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: (1) Marc Levinson, Interview with Al Shanker
Recording Title: (1) Marc Levinson, Interview with Jerry Wurf

Format: Cassette
Length:
Number of items: 2
Accession Number: L1983-1

Author: Birmingham Gospel Quartets
Title:
Recording Title: Birmingham Boys, Jubilee Gospel Quartets

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1983-21

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: UAW [United Auto Workers] Retirees, June 22, 1983

Format: Cassette
Length: 60 min.
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1983-21

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Les Hough, Interview with Members of UBC, Local 144, May 3, 1983

Format: Cassette
Length: 60 min. each
Number of items: 2
Accession Number: L1983-22

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Frank Gorman

Format: Cassette
Length: 60 min. each
Number of items: 2
Accession Number: L1983-23

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Atlanta Labor History Project

Format: Cassette
Length:
Number of items: 2
Accession Number: L1983-24

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Mary Frederickson, Women's History Southern Summer School [sic]

Format: Cassette
Length: 60 min.
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1983-25

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: (1) Worker Records, Solidarity Day, September 19, 1981
Recording Title: (2) Worker Records, Groundwork, Songs of Working People, Joe Uehlein

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 2
Accession Number: L1983-28

Author: Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture
Title:
Recording Title: (1) Afro-American Spirituals, Work Songs & Ballads (with book)
Recording Title: (2) Negro Work Songs and Calls (with book)
Recording Title: (3) Songs and Ballads of the Anthracite Miner (with book)
Recording Title: (4) American Sea Songs and Shanties (with book)
Recording Title: (5) Cowboy Songs, Ballads and Cattle Calls from Texas (with book)
Recording Title: (6) Songs and Ballads of the Bituminous Miners
Recording Title: (7) Songs of Complaint and Protest (with book)
Recording Title: (8) Songs of Labor and Livelihood (with book)
Recording Title: (9) The Ballad Hunter, Parts V & VI (with book)
Recording Title: (10) The Ballad Hunter, Parts VII & VIII (with book)

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 10
Accession Number: L1983-35

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Bread and Raises: Songs for Working Women, Bobbie McGhee

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1983-42

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Southern Grassroots Revival Project, Oh, What A Time!  Southern Grassroots Music Tour

Format: Disc
Length:
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1985-1

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: Southern Grassroots Revival Project, Anne Romaine, "Which Side Are You On?"

Format: Cassette
Length: 17 min.
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1985-1

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: George Baker, Interviewed by Les Hough, June 8, 1984

Format: Cassette
Length: 60 min.
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1986-12

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: IAM, Roy Siemiller, Interviewed by Les Hough, February 22 and 23, 1986

Format: Cassette
Length: 6 hours
Number of items: 5
Accession Number: L1986-13

Author:
Title:
Recording Title: GSU Labor Studies Program, Gid Parham of the IBT interviewed by John Schmidman

Format: Cassette
Length: 60 min.
Number of items: 1
Accession Number: L1992-2

Archivist: Lauren Kata, lkata@gsu.edu

Revised: November 16, 2005