Twentieth Century Radicalism in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Carl Skoglund

Titles: Twentieth Century Radicalism in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Carl Skoglund (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Carl Skoglund was born in Sweden in 1884. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1911 after being blacklisted for strike activities. He moved to Minnesota where he was a railway worker but was blacklisted after the 1922-23 Pullman strike. He was a founding member of the U.S. Communist Party, but was expelled by the Party in 1928 for Trotskyism. He and other Trotskyites led the 1934 Teamsters coalyard strikes. He helped found the Socialist Workers Party in 1938. In 1941 he was convicted under the Smith Act and served his sentence in Sandstone federal penitentiary. He died in 1960. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Sweden: living conditions, childhood, religion, social life, medicine, education; immigration; employment: Pullman Company, coalyard driver; organizer of Local 544; imprisonment; family. RESTRICTIONS ON USE: Interview cannot be quoted directly for publication.

Dates

• Not earlier than 1955 - Not later than 1959 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Skoglund, Carl
• interviewer: Weissman, George

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 30.64
• Accession Number: AV1990.228.79
• Link to Finding Aid

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Twentieth Century Radicalism in Minnesota Oral History Project' <OH 30>

Quantity: 3 hour sound cassette 27 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 02:08:27 running time

Subjects

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