Smallwood Interview 03A

• Main Author: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Educational Television Centre
• Other Authors: Smallwood, Joseph Roberts, 1900-1991 (Interviewee); Pitt, Robert D. W., 1953- (Interviewer);, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL)
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Educational Television Centre 1983
• Subjects: Smallwood; Joseph Roberts; 1900-1991 > Childhood and youth; 1900-1991 > Education; Newfoundland and Labrador > Politics and government > 20th century; St. John's (N.L.) > Social conditions; Socialism; Liberalism; Coopers and cooperage; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/extension/id/1497

Robert Pitt interviews Joseph (Joey) Smallwood. Smallwood explains how his childhood and early education at Bishop Field College prepared him for his later roles as a labour organizer and Premier. He also talks about his early introduction to socialism as a youth. He discusses the Cooper's Union and the Mechanic's Society and how he joined the Liberal Party. Smallwood speaks of his time in New York and some of the people he met there while attending various lectures. He also speaks of some of the schools he attended in St. John's as a child.