ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM Saltiel, Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives 1935-45 and the Illinois Senate 1947-55, discusses his years in the General Assembly: legislation involving the Chicago Crime Commission, unemployment compensation, public utilities and railroads, and health, education, and judiciary legislation. Also discusses his years before the legislature: law school, law practice, running for a judicial position on the Socialist ticket, and politics and life in Chicago. He also recalls his more recent work with judicial reform and the United Nations Commission on Migration.

17 tapes, 860 mins., 175 pp., plus index Interview by Horace Q. Waggoner, 1982 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes and photocopies of photographs.