- Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
- Title:
- Joe Merritt oral history interview, 1995-06-29
- Creator:
- Merritt, Joe
- Contributor to Resource:
- Lutz, Christine
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1995-06-29
- Subject:
- Local government
Labor Unions
Labor unions--Officials and employees
Ironwork - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Joe Merritt was born in 1900 in Brookwood, Ga. He first joined a union in 1939 as an iron worker in Norfolk, Va. He moved to Savannah, Ga. and became the president, and subsequently the business agent for a union there, Local 709. The international union then gave Merritt a position as an acting general organizer and then full scale organizer, which entailed duties all over the United States.
In this interview, Merritt begins by discussing his early union experiences. He also discusses quickly becoming very involved in the union. Merritt discusses his evolution from working for a local union to working for the International. He also discusses the political campaigns he was invested in during his time in the International and the details of his work for the International. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/labor/id/6101
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/labor:6101/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Merritt, Joe, interviewed by Chris Lutz, June 29, 1995, Voices of Labor Oral History Project, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:31:41
- Original Collection:
- Voices of Labor Oral History Project
http://research.library.gsu.edu/VoicesofLabor
Southern Labor Archives - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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