Guide to the Lillian Roberts Interview By Dick Cavett

Collection Number: 5134 AV

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:
Kheel Staff
Date completed:
February 01, 2013
EAD encoding:
Kheel Staff, February 2013

© 2013 Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Lillian Roberts Interview by Dick Cavett
Collection Number:
5134 AV
Creator:
Lillian Roberts Dick Cavett
Quantity:
1 audio cassette
Forms of Material:
Audio cassette.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
This informative and sometimes amusing interview begins with Roberts describing her childhood in Chicago. She goes on to explain how she moved to NYC to organize hospital workers and eventually became Associate Director of District Council 37. Roberts discusses communist infiltration of unions, women's liberation, being jailed for striking, negotiations, and her organizing efforts
Language:
Collection material in English

She has been described as "quiet steel" and a "tigress protecting her workers." At one point during the conversation she said, "the more one pushes me the firmer I get." She is presently the Commissioner of Labor for the State of New York.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

This informative and sometimes amusing interview begins with Roberts describing her childhood in Chicago. She goes on to explain how she moved to NYC to organize hospital workers and eventually became Associate Director of District Council 37. Roberts discusses communist infiltration of unions, women's liberation, being jailed for striking, negotiations, and her organizing efforts
SUBJECTS

Names:
Cavett, Dick
Roberts, Lillian

Form and Genre Terms:
Audiovisual material.
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Cite As:
Lillian Roberts Interview by Dick Cavett #5134 AV. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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