Finding aid to the Carl T. Anderson Oral History
Finding aid created by Labor Archives and Research Center staff.
Labor Archives and Research Center
2017
San Francisco State University
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Title: Carl T. Anderson oral history
Date: 1987 October 29
Creator:
Labor Archives and Research Center
Extent:
Transcript: 1 folder; Tapes: 1 audio cassette
Collection number: larc.oh.anderson
Abstract: Sound recording of interview with Carl T. Anderson conducted by Adah Bakalinsky. Discusses childhood in Scotland and Denmark,
arrival in U.S. in 1943, and working on the construction of the Carquinez Bridge; joined Pile Drivers Union when twenty-eight
years old; lifelong Socialist; describes battle over Communists in the Union; retired in 1985.
Language of Material: Languages represented in the collection: English.
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Carl T. Anderson oral history. San Francisco State University. Labor Archives and Research Center
Interview conducted by Adah Bakalinsky, 1987.
Member, Pile Drivers Local 34.
Sound recording of interview with Carl T. Anderson conducted by Adah Bakalinsky. Discusses childhood in Scotland and Denmark,
arrival in U.S. in 1943, and working on the construction of the Carquinez Bridge; joined Pile Drivers Union when twenty-eight
years old; lifelong Socialist; describes battle over Communists in the Union; retired in 1985.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Piling (Civil engineering) -- United States -- History.
Piling (Civil engineering) -- California -- History.
Pile drivers -- California -- Interviews.
Pile drivers -- Labor unions -- California.
Socialists -- United States -- Interviews.
Audiocassettes.
Oral histories.
Anderson, Carl
Bakalinsky, Adah
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. Pile Drivers, Bridge, Wharf and Dock Builders. Local Union no. 34