Search Constraints
Search Results
- 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 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 poor conditions at Chevrolet 4 and the need for a union, although he was neutral; discusses A. G. Redmond, in Owosso
- Date Issued:
- 1980-03-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses work in mines in Illinois and Missouri, conditions at his workplace at Chevrolet Plant No. 6, and his experience sitting in during the Sit-Down Strike, when he cooked breakfast meals. He describes conditions later at Standard Cotton Products and the Ku Klux Klan in Missouri.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-03-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- A realtor and developer, he discusses economic conditions in Flint during the 1930s,
- Date Issued:
- 1979-08-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his father's work in the auto industry in Connersville, Indiana, before moving to Flint in 1930; an offer to become a "company man"; participation in the Sit-Down Strike at Fisher 1; scheme to hire people from Missouri.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-02-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He describes work at Fisher 1, the strkes in 1930, 1934; his duties during the Sit-Down Strike, post-strike factionalism, his siding with Martin
- Date Issued:
- 1980-04-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He describes his work history, early on as a miner, then as an employee of AC Spark Plug; his experience organizing there at organizing at Buick and elsewhere after the strike
- Date Issued:
- 1979-08-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- She talks about the development of her political views, of influences, work at the Pengelly Building, organization of the UAW Women's Auxiliary and Women's Emergency Brigade; Palmer and Jones contribute ideas about Flint, about workers and their attitudes, and about the Sit-Down Strike
- Date Issued:
- 1978-09-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project