Jennie Matyas and the ILGWU, 1957

The collection consists of a bound volume of oral history interviews of Jennie Matyas Charters conducted by Corinne L. Gilb for a project to gather source material on California's cultural history. The interviews were tape recorded at Matyas' home in Marin County, California on April 20, May 5, June 14, June 29, July 26, August 9, and October 28, 1955. Topics discussed by Matyas and reflected in the table of contents include: early life in Hungary, coming to America, working in the garment factories at the age of 14, joining the union and her early activities with the union, discussions on socialism, women's suffrage and the communist infiltration, organizing, the union in California, and her continuing education.