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- 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 activity as a policeman during the sit-down strike; he was mostly at the courthouse
- Date Issued:
- 1979-03-11T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- 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:
- He discusses the working conditions at Chevrolet 4, the need for a union, the Sit-Down Strike in that plant, how Communists gained control of meetings, and wildcat strikes after the settlement
- Date Issued:
- 1978-07-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He talks about working conditions at Fisher Body Plant No. 2; about the 42 days he sat in while on strike, including the violence. He mentions several leaders of the strike.
- Date Issued:
- 1978-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses the poor working conditions at Fisher 2 and early organizing, the strike, during which his wife was pregnant; he talks of the routines of the strikers who sat in
- Date Issued:
- 1978-07-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his involvement in the Sit-Down Strike as a lieutenant in the National Guard
- Date Issued:
- 1980-03-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his memories of the Sit-Down Strike an an employee of Fisher Plant No. 1, helping to collect food for the strikers. He comments on working conditions before the strike, the relative degree of cooperation from food donors. He remarks that he was young and not strongly interested in labor organizing.
- Date Issued:
- 1979-07-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- She talks about her work in the Sewing Department of Fisher 1, that organizers were "rough" people.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-03-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project