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- 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 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:
- An African American worker in the Buick foundry, he talks about organizing a union in 1929; about GM using blacks as strikebreakers; about his activity in the Communist Party and of others in Flint and the Detroit area, including after World War II; and about his personal history.
- Date Issued:
- 1981-01-23T00:00:00Z
- 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 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