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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
- 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
- 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 career as a young lawyer in the 1930s for the local UAW, describes individuals active in the labor movement in Flint, ethnic groups such as the Macedonians and Hungarians in Flint, and the activities of the Bulgarian-Macedonian Workers Educational Club; Mrs. Evanoff talks of Caroline Stearns and the teachers' union
- Date Issued:
- 1978-06-30T00:00:00Z
- 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 his employment at Chevrolet 4 and the Sit-Down Strike in general
- Date Issued:
- 1978-06-09T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- An employee of Fisher 1, he recalls the AFL unions and the 1934 strike and describes his activity during the Sit-Down Strike, including picket and kitchen duty
- Date Issued:
- 1978-07-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He recalls the Strike from the perspective of being a young, newly hired employee of Fisher 1. He talks about Hungarians from Pennsylvania in the North End and conditions after the strike
- Date Issued:
- 1980-03-05T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- A native of Hungary, he discusses his father's immigration and work history; his employment at Buick and AC Sparkplug; attitudes towards the AFL and CIO and Communists
- Date Issued:
- 1986-08-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project