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- Description:
- He discusses his work history, his activity during the Sit-Down Strike, including shutting down Chevrolet 4, attitudes of Hungarians towards unionism
- Date Issued:
- 1980-04-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his personal history, his work history at Fisher 1, and his involvement as a member of the strike committee at Fisher 1; his participation in the anti-Communist faction and afterwards in the AFL, Homer Martin faction; his investigation of the Black Legion; his wife Elsie comments on her activity during the strike
- Date Issued:
- 1979-08-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- She discusses her experiences as an employee at the Pengelly Building; making sandwiches for the strikers; attitudes toward Communists; dances at the Pengelly Building.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-12-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his work history, first at the Buick foundry, then at Chevrolet 4, where he worked during the strike. He describes the sit-down at Chevrolet 4 and the changes after the strike. He did not continue working in the automobile factories.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-02-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- An employee of Chevrolet 4, he recalls the Sit-Down Strike and his work history
- Date Issued:
- 1978-07-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his work at Fisher 1; during the strike, he went home and did not participate. Lena was a Buick office employee who sympathized with the company
- Date Issued:
- 1978-07-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his experience at Fisher Body Plant No. 1, after he came to Flint in 1934. He talks about early organizing attempts. He served on the strike committee during the strike and describes morale and routine activity and attitudes toward the left wing.
- Date Issued:
- 1978-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his work history, coming to Buick in 1930 to work in the foundry; the black community in Flint; relations between whites and blacks; organizing black labor; church relations; and Henry Clark.
- Date Issued:
- 1979-04-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He describes his work history, starting in 1930 at Chevrolet Plant No. 4, attending organizing meetings in 1936; and the Sit-Down Strike; attitudes towards left-wingers; the post-strike factional split
- Date Issued:
- 1980-03-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He was an apprentice at Chevrolet Plant No. 4 at the time of the strike; he gives his personal history and describes lukewarm feelings towards unionization; he thought working conditions better at AC Spark Plug than Chevrolet or Fisher; he makes many more observations about working conditions at various Flint plants.
- Date Issued:
- 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project