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- Description:
- Leader of the strike at Standard Cotton Products Company, he discusses his activities in UAW Local 599
- Date Issued:
- 1982-02-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- Oklahoma native and Buick worker, he discusses his personal and work history, including conditions at Buick before and during the Sit-Down Strike
- Date Issued:
- 1980-09-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- An African-American, he discusses his personal work history as a strikebreaker in Houston, Texas; as an organizer of foundry workers at Buick; relations between blacks and European immigrants;
- Date Issued:
- 1979-08-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his career as an elective or appointed officer in the UAW, unionization at Buick, attitudes towards unions by religious people and ethnic groups, Communists, Catholic trade unionists, working conditions at Buick, the AFL company unions, Chevrolet's hiring of people from Missouri, Mott Foundation, Plant-City Committee, unionization efforts at A. G. Redmond in Owosso, the Industrial Mutual Association, Consumers Power strike, and race relations among Buick workers.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-06-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his work history in Flint at Chevrolet and Buick and early attempts at labor organizing, the AFL company unions, organizing at Buick, and post-strike factionalism.
- Date Issued:
- 1979-06-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project