Tape # 188 Leonard, Winifred
Occupation: Mill Worker
Ethnic Background: Irish
Interviewer: Marge Troy
Comments: Tape describes Winifred's growing up in the early 1900s, her neighborhood mostly Irish, Strike of 1912, the IWW came to town, a radical group, strike in 1943 for more pay. Reason mills left area, describes working conditions in the Kunhardt Mill, start of the Depression, start of the NRA.
See folder
Collection
Lawrence History Center Oral History Collection
https://lawrencehistory.org/files/audio/oh/2007.500.305-wleonard.mp3
Date (created)
1977-06-22