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- 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 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:
- She discusses her experiences as an employee at the Pengelly Building; making sandwiches for the strikers; attitudes toward Communists; dances at the Pengelly Building.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-12-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his work history, first at the Buick foundry, then at Chevrolet 4, where he worked during the strike. He describes the sit-down at Chevrolet 4 and the changes after the strike. He did not continue working in the automobile factories.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-02-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- An employee of Chevrolet 4, he recalls the Sit-Down Strike and his work history
- Date Issued:
- 1978-07-08T00:00:00Z
- 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 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:
- He describes his work history, starting in 1930 at Chevrolet Plant No. 4, attending organizing meetings in 1936; and the Sit-Down Strike; attitudes towards left-wingers; the post-strike factional split
- Date Issued:
- 1980-03-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He was an apprentice at Chevrolet Plant No. 4 at the time of the strike; he gives his personal history and describes lukewarm feelings towards unionization; he thought working conditions better at AC Spark Plug than Chevrolet or Fisher; he makes many more observations about working conditions at various Flint plants.
- Date Issued:
- 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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 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:
- 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 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 describes his work history and his involvement in the Sit-Down Strike from Chevrolet 2A, as a member of the security patrol
- Date Issued:
- 1978-07-13T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- She discusses the activity of her late husband, Paul Gadola, Circuit Court judge, during the Sit-Down Strike, the threats, American Legion supporters, protection for Harlow Curtice's children, and his attitudes towards unions and General Motors
- 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
- 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 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
- Description:
- An employee of Chevrolet 4, he describes his involvement in the Sit-Down Strike
- Date Issued:
- 1978-07-18T00:00:00Z
- 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