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Interview with Marie Gleason (Interview 5) [Sound Recording 01]
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- 1976-02-13 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:31:08
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Marie Gleason was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1894. In 1914, she relocated to Los Angeles, California, then moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1917. In 1942, she joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and began working as an electrician in the Kaiser shipyards in Portland. She was forced off the job after the end of World War II.
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Tape 1, Side 1. In this interview, Marie Gleason discusses working as an electrician at the Kaiser shipyards. She talks about supervising other women workers, including helping to accommodate a deaf coworker; and discusses the people she worked with. She briefly mentions the use of the day care centers and how other women had benefited from them. She also talks about training her cat and shares other personal anecdotes. She speaks about being laid off at the end of the war, and talks about her activities since then. She closes her interview by reflecting on her involvement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
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Joint copyright for audio recordings in the collection is held by the Oregon Historical Society and the estates of each interviewee. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/
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- English
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- Skold, Karen Beck (Contributor)