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- Description:
- A worker at Fisher Body Plant No. 1, he discusses his personal history, his involvement with political groups before the Sit-Down Strike, the Sit-Down Strike itself, and post-strike conditions and union politics
- Date Issued:
- 1980-02-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- General Secretary for Michigan of the Communist Party of the United States during the Sit-Down Strike and later General Secretary of the CPUSA, he critiques various analyses of the Strike, discusses the local political situations in Flint and Detroit, Mortimer's organizing, the role of the Communist Party, and events after the strike
- Date Issued:
- 1979-03-15T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- A former Buick employee and Communist Party member, he discusses the UAW, labor organizing in Flint, and a variety of other topics
- Date Issued:
- 1981-07-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his personal history, including encounters with the IWW in Minnesota; involvement in the Socialist Party and in organizing the unemployed and workers. He also discusses his work in the Sit-Down Strike at Chevrolet 9
- Date Issued:
- 1979-08-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- Malone, a Communist employee of Chevrolet Plant No. 4, discusses the Sit-Down Strike with Henry Kraus, who also discusses his memories of the Strike; they mention the anti-Communist drive led by Walter Reuther, Kermit Johnson and the strike at Plant 4, the first blacks to work on assembly, and political factions in the Flint unions
- Date Issued:
- 1986-07-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- A tool and die maker and labor organizer at the Fisher Body Coit Road plant in Cleveland, he discusses the sit-down strike that occurred there in 1936 and the organizing that had occurred there
- Date Issued:
- 1978-12-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- An employee of Fisher Body Plant No. 2, he discusses his work history, organizing the union, the Sit-Down Strike, of which he was a leader in his plant, post-strike unioin politics, and his and others' experience in coming to Flint and getting hired
- Date Issued:
- 1980-07-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- Editor of the Flint Auto Worker and author of the first book about the strike, he discusses the operation of his newspaper, his views of the strike organization; Dorothy Kraus discusses the organization of the strike kitchen and of women in general; he discusses UAW politics during and after the strike.
- Date Issued:
- 1982-05-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his work as an organizer of the unemployed, 1935; his personal history in the United Mine Workers; and the Sit-Down Strike.
- Date Issued:
- 1979-08-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project