George J. Saul "The Making of a Rebel in America, An Unfinished Autobiography" Manuscript
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Scope and Contents
Consists of a single draft of an uncompleted autobiography. The bulk of the autobiography concerns Saul's life prior to his becoming involved with the union movement. The aspects of Saul's life discussed include his childhood in Colorado, his experiences in the army during World War I, and his years as a college student in Dvner during the 1920s. The latter part of the manuscript cursorily covers Saul's union activities, including his participation in the Colorado Fuel and Iron and Gastonia strikes. Also included in the latter part is a brief discussion of the formation of the UAW in Detroit. The manuscript also briefly covers the impact of the Sacco and Vanzetti case on the development of Saul's radicalism; the need to organize black workers, particularly in the South; the author's reasons for leaving the union movment; and his reasons for defecting to Trotskyism.
Dates
- 1969
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
Labor activist, union organizer, social theorist and Trotskyite.
George Saul was active in the union movement during the 1920s, 1930s, and early 1940s. During this period, Saul was involved in a number of significant struggles between labor and capital, including the I.W.W.-led strike of miners against the Rockefeller owned Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in 1927 and the communist-led strike of textile workers in Gastonia, N.C. in 1929. He was also involved in organizing Ford employees in Detroit in the 1930s and early 1940s. While a member of the United Automobile Workers (CIO), Saul was constantly at odds with the union leadership and, as a result, left the union movement shortly after the end of World War II. Saul was also active in the Communist Party during the 1920s, turning to Trotskyism in the 1930s because of disagreements with the party leadership over tactics and general principles.
Extent
1 folders
Abstract
"The Making of A Rebel in America: An Unfinished Autobiography" by George James Saul (May 24, 1897-January 27, 1967), with an introduction by William Edward Saul.
Quantity:
1 file folder.
Forms of Material:
Autobiographies, drafts (documents), manuscripts (documents) .
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, October 21, 2013
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 14, 2019
- African Americans -- Employment -- Southern States
- Colorado Fuel and Iron Strike, 1927.
- Communist Party of the United States of America
- Labor unions -- Organizing
- Labor unions and communism -- United States
- Labor unions, Black -- Membership -- United States
- Sacco-Vanzetti case.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives
- Title
- Saul, George J. "The Making of a Rebel in America, An Unfinished Autobiography" Manuscript
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- March 14, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853