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Publishes an address given by the author at the Labour Panel of the Canadian Oral History Association, University of Ottawa, June 8-10, 1982. Discusses the value of oral labour history (Tester had in recent years taped 75 hours of interviews with 50 participants) and the labour-industrial archives founded at Laurentian University. Argues that the Mine, Mill and Smelters union was locally controlled, unlike the Steelworkers, and that there was no communist representation in the Sudbury leadership. [Editor's note: A communist Mine Mill union member, Jim Tester (1913-1995) was also well-known in the Sudbury labour movement.]