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- Description:
- An employee at Fisher Plant No. 1, he discusses organizing for the AFL, the 1930 strike, post-strike factionalism in the UAW; and the Sit-Down Strike.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-03-24T00:00:00Z
- 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
- Description:
- He reads his "History of the Drive to Organize UAW Local 599 (Buick)"; he held organizing meetings in his home; describes a fight with his foreman that was supported by the union and his department
- Date Issued:
- 1982-02-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- She, the wife of an employee of Fisher Body Plant No. 1, discusses the 1930 strike there and the Sit-Down Strike, in which her husband participated
- Date Issued:
- 1979-05-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- Chairman of the strike committee at Fisher Body Plant No. 1, he discusses his introduction to labor unions in Indiana, his organizing at Kelsey-Hayes, his organizing in Flint, planning the Sit-Down Strike, the strike itself, and factionalism after the strike
- Date Issued:
- 1978-12-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his work history at Fisher Body Plant No. 2, organizing efforts in 1936; the Sit-Down Strike; and factionalism in the UAW after the strike.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-03-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his work history at Fisher Plant No. 2, of early unionization efforts, of the Sit-Down Strike itself, workers recruited from elsewhere, such as Arkansas; results of the strike.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-02-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- The wife and mother of Sit-Down strikers, she discusses her involvement in the Women's Auxiliary, her husband's union activity, life during the Depression, neighbors' attitudes, etc.
- Date Issued:
- 1979-06-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project