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Actions	Interviews with Ken Slater, 1988 Remove from selection Add to selection TitleInterviews with Ken Slater, 1988 ReferenceTAPE/316 Date 10 Feb 1988 Production date 1988-02-10 - 1988-02-10 Scope and ContentKen Slater was born in 1926. His union was the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers of which he became District Secretary. He was also involved with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and international solidarity work (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, Vietnam), and with labour history education. He was a member of the Young Communist League in Accrington, the Communist Party and later on of the Labour Party. Political education. Post war activities. Strikes. Meetings. Committees. CP membership, names active members. Talk about people on a list of names and their union and political involvement. Union attitudes towards immigrants. [continued from TAPE/315] The interviewer is Jim Ainsworth. Ruth Frow gave the Ken Slater Memorial Lecture in 2002 at Accrington, and drew from this interview. See PP/BIOGA/1/919 for a transcript. A digital recording of this tape is available to listen to at the library Extent1 cassette tape and 2 digital recordings Physical descriptionDuration: 2 hr. 07 min. (over two tapes) LanguageEnglish Archival historyThe views and opinions expressed in the interview(s) are the interviewee’s own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Working Class Movement Library. The interview may contain attitudes and/or language that some people may find offensive and may contain discussions of events that some people may find distressing. Related object Ken Slater: biography file Persons keywordSlater, Ken, Amalgamated Engineering Union, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Communist Party of Great Britain SubjectOral history, Engineers, Peace movements, Communism Conditions governing accessOpen Levelfile Normal locationZ (Room 24)

TitleInterviews with Ken Slater, 1988

ReferenceTAPE/316

Date

10 Feb 1988

Production date 1988-02-10 - 1988-02-10

Scope and ContentKen Slater was born in 1926. His union was the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers of which he became District Secretary. He was also involved with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and international solidarity work (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, Vietnam), and with labour history education. He was a member of the Young Communist League in Accrington, the Communist Party and later on of the Labour Party. Political education. Post war activities. Strikes. Meetings. Committees. CP membership, names active members. Talk about people on a list of names and their union and political involvement. Union attitudes towards immigrants. [continued from TAPE/315]
The interviewer is Jim Ainsworth. Ruth Frow gave the Ken Slater Memorial Lecture in 2002 at Accrington, and drew from this interview. See PP/BIOGA/1/919 for a transcript.
A digital recording of this tape is available to listen to at the library

Extent1 cassette tape and 2 digital recordings

Physical descriptionDuration: 2 hr. 07 min. (over two tapes)

LanguageEnglish

Archival historyThe views and opinions expressed in the interview(s) are the interviewee’s own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Working Class Movement Library.
The interview may contain attitudes and/or language that some people may find offensive and may contain discussions of events that some people may find distressing.

Related object

Ken Slater: biography file

Persons keywordSlater, Ken, Amalgamated Engineering Union, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Communist Party of Great Britain

SubjectOral history, Engineers, Peace movements, Communism

Conditions governing accessOpen

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Normal locationZ (Room 24)

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