Perley Payne oral history
Scope and Contents
Sound recording of interview with Perley Payne conducted by Fred Hirsh. Discusses growing up in a pioneer farming family in the Santa Clara Valley; agricultural and orchard work in the 1930s, including labor conditions for bindlestiffs and itinerant agricultural laborers; organizing cannery workers in Campbell. Discusses being recruited to go fight in the Spanish civil war as an Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteer; attitudes toward "premature anti-fascists" when they returned home; worked at Moore Dry Dock shipyards in Oakland during World War II, shop steward for machinists' union at Food Machinery Company in San Jose, served in the Navy during World War II, Senior Superintendent of Calabasas, Agricultural Extension Service of the University of California.
Dates
- 1999 March 17
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biography
Abraham Lincoln Brigade Veteran.
Extent
5 audio cassettes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Perley Payne conducted by Fred Hirsh. Discusses growing up in a pioneer farming family in the Santa Clara Valley; agricultural and orchard work in the 1930s, including labor conditions for bindlestiffs and itinerant agricultural laborers; organizing cannery workers in Campbell. Discusses being recruited to go fight in the Spanish civil war as an Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteer; attitudes toward "premature anti-fascists" when they returned home; worked at Moore Dry Dock shipyards in Oakland during World War II, shop steward for machinists' union at Food Machinery Company in San Jose, served in the Navy during World War II, Senior Superintendent of Calabasas, Agricultural Extension Service of the University of California.
Acquisition Information
Interviews conducted by Fred Hirsh for the Labor Archives and Research Center, 1999.
- Agricultural laborers -- California -- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
- Audiocassettes.
- Cannery workers -- California.
- Hirsh, Fred (Interviewer)
- Migrant labor -- California.
- Oral histories.
- Payne, Perley (Interviewee)
- Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, American.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
- Title
- Finding aid to the Perley Payne oral history
- Author
- Finding aid created by Labor Archives and Research Center staff.
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in: English.
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu