Interview with Dominic DelTurco, November 11, 1981, Tape 1, Side 1
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0053-t1s1
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Title
Interview with Dominic DelTurco, November 11, 1981
Subject
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company. Aliquippa Works, Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers of North America, DelTurco, Dominic, Labor unions, Union busting, Fascists, Ethnic relations, Italians
Description
[t1s1]Dominic DelTurco talks about the Black Hand in Aliquippa then going to Italy for school at age 16; forced into Fascist army; Mussolini; return to America to work for Jones and Laughlin Steel Company (J & L). He talks about Aliquippa and rise of unions in the 1930s: challenge on seven-day work week; Amalgamated Association; J & L Employees Representation Plan; stool pigeons; intimidation of union organizers; 1933 strike in Ambridge. [t1s2]Dominic DelTurco talks about J & L and rise of unions in the 1930s: intimidation; bribes; strikes; being a roving picket. He speaks on finances and removal of president of Amalgamated Local 200. He talks about Aliquippa during the Depression and ethnic groups.
Contributor
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden (depositor), DelTurco, Dominic (interviewee), Witt, Sally (interviewer)
Date
1981-11-11
Type
oral histories (literary genre)
Format
cassette tape, 92 minutes
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0053
Language
eng
Relation
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden Oral History Collection
Coverage
Aliquippa (Pa.), Italy
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