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- 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:
- 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 the Sit-Down Strike in Fisher No. 1 and his duty as patrolman; his work history; his personal history, and further details of the strike, such as Sheriff Wolcott's reading of the injunction
- Date Issued:
- 1980-03-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- 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:
- He discusses working conditions and his activities during the strike, including participating in the publicity committee
- 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 father, an AFL member, his work at Fisher 1and his firing for joining the union; he recalls the 1930 strike, when a boy; conditions after the strike, and attitudes towards union.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-05-29T00:00:00Z
- 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
- Description:
- Bjaland and O'Hara discuss their work history as young supervisors, including their roles as mediators between labor and management, about hiring practices, including favoritism for Masons and Catholics; the firings of the Perkins boys; changes after the strike.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-03-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project