Title
Lucile Speer Interview, January 20, 1981
Interviewer
Diann Wiesner
Files
Download Transcript of Lucile Speer Interview, January 20, 1981 (273 KB)
Description
Lucile Speer names many of the people involved in the Montana Farmer-Labor Institute including Executive Secretaries Pete Rudiman and John Swackhamer, and Presidents Don Chapman and Leonard Kenfield. She discusses member of the Teachers Union in Bozeman—Karl Kraenzel and Paul Dunbar—and Harry and Gretchen Billings, editors of the People’s Voice, who published articles about the Institute. Speer recalls Perry Melton, a member of the painters union, as a notable figure during this time and also Joseph Kinsey Howard, a member of the newspaper guild. She describes how the Workers Education Bureau helped organize the Institute and that the American Federation of Labor financed it. Speer also explains the events of Phillip O. Keeney’s firing from the University of Montana Library.
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Document Type
Oral History
Subjects
Montana Farmer-Labor Institute -- History; Rudiman, Pete; Swackhamer, John W. (John Williams), 1919-1955; Don Chapman; Kenfield, Leonard; Kraenzel, Karl; Dunbar, Paul; Edmund Freeman; Clark, W.P.; Billings, Harry L., 1913-1990; Billings, Gretchen; People’s Voice; Melton, Perry S., 1907-1992; Painter’s Union; Howard, Joseph Kinsey, 1906-1951; Newspaper Guild; Workers Education Bureau of America; National Federation of Labor; Keeney, Philip O. (Philip Olin), 1891-1962; Simmons, George Finlay, 1895-1955; Speer, Lucile – Interviews; Speer, Lucile -- Political activity – Interviews; Academic librarians -- Montana – Interviews; Montana State University (Missoula, Mont.) – History; University of Montana--Missoula – Faculty; Montana State University (Missoula, Mont.). Library – History; Montana State College – History; Montana State College – Faculty; Academic librarians -- Montana -- 20th century; Academic libraries -- Montana – History; American Federation of Labor
Original Date
1-20-1981
Time Period
Twentieth century
Geographic Coverage
Montana
Language
eng
Original Collection
Lucile Speer Interviews Oral History Project, OH 046, Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula
Digital Publisher
University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library
Rights
Copyright to this collection is held by the interview participants and by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. Permission may be required for use. For further information please contact Archives and Special Collections: (406) 243-2053 / library.archives@umontana.edu
Oral History Number
OH 046-002
Media Type
Sound; Text
Original Format
1 sound cassette (01:00:00 min.) analog + 1 transcript (12 p.: 28 cm.)]
Digital Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Run Time
01:01:50 minutes
Local Filename
OH_046_002.mp3; OH_046_002.pdf
Citation
Speer, Lucile, "Lucile Speer Interview, January 20, 1981" (1981). Lucile Speer Interviews Oral History Project. 2.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/lucilespeer_interviews/2