On Saturday, November 10, 1984, the Rieve-Pollock Foundation held a reunion for retired staff and activists of the TWUA to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the 1934 textile strike and the forty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the TWUA. In order that the speeches and other remarks at the reunion would be recorded and included in the TWUA Oral History Project Collection, the Foundation arranged for Jim Cavanaugh of the State Historical Society staff to attend and record the proceedings. The formal proceedings lasted a little over four hours and were chaired by Sol Stetin. Featured speakers were George Perkel, Sol Barkin, Larry Rogin, and Al Barkan. All but the latter had previously been interviewed for the TWUA Oral History Project. Joe Glazer, who was unable to attend, sent a half-hour tape of textile labor songs in his place.
