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Ontario CCF-NDP Oral History Project collection
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Murdo Martin, Timmins, Jan. 3, 1986

Interview with Murdo Martin regarding the CCF. Side One: Voter motivation-negative attitudes - Formation of the NDP, CCF and Labour - leadership-rank and file - Communist involvement - anecdotal. Side Two: union affairs - survival of the CCF-NDP - CCF in the 30's and 40's compared to the NDP in the 80's.

Cecil and May Seaman, Port Arthur, Ont., March 13, 1986

Interview with Cecil and May Seaman regarding the CCF. Side One: Introcuction to CCF and its ideas - May's mother's involvement - switch from Conservatives - CCF and security - elections of 1943 and 1945 - stealing of CCF program - CCF and labour's generational difference in union and non-union members - impetus of CCF members-what kept them going - Charles Cox. Side Two: forest industry - dream of the CCFers - Liberal adoption of the CCF platform - formation of NDP.

Campbell, Peter

Elmer McVey, Sudbury, Ontario, Dec. 30, 1985

Interview with Elmer McVey regarding the CCF.. Side One: Personal definition of socialism - CCF-union linkage improve ... in Sudbury - living conditions - CCF meetings, library - Socialist eduction - NDP founding convention, 1948 - Bob Carlin - street meetings. Side Two: Inexperience of CCFers in 1940s - Sask. experience - effect of TV on inability to promote socialist message - ideas and organization waffle - Present-day NDP policies.

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