Melba Liston UCLA Center for Oral History Research, Library Special Collections, Charles E Young Research Library, UCLA Interview Block 687 (Q17902)

Earlier we talked a little about the union [American Federation of Musicians]. You joined when you were very young and started working right away. Were you active at all within the union itself? I know by the late forties there was a movement to amalgamate the two unions [Local 47 and Local 767]. Maybe you could talk about that, how you felt about it, if you were active in that, if you thought ...