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- Description:
- Floyd Loew, waiter and strike organizer, describes an altercation between the Waiters and Waitresses Union and members of the German American Bund when they tried to hire waitresses without going through the union. Loew also talks about how the union organized the hotels and convention halls in Detroit, strikes, sit-downs, and other labor actions, and integrating the union and organizing Black waiters and cooks as a way to prevent them from being used as scabs.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-09-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Mitch Skory recalls his life in Lansing, MI, including establishing a television sales and service business in the early days of TV, opening several other businesses, the assimilation of the Lebanese community in the Lansing area and about relations with other ethnic and racial groups, a fire which destroyed a downtown hotel, the city phone system and party lines, the establishment of the REO manufacturing company, and the city turning Washington Ave into a pedestrian mall. Skory says that he is optimistic about Lansing's future. Skory is interviewed by Rebecca Hector-Kruth and others.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Floyd Loew, waiter and strike organizer, describes an altercation between the Waiters and Waitresses Union and members of the German American Bund when they tried to hire waitresses without going through the union. Loew also talks about how the union organized the hotels and convention halls in Detroit, strikes, sit-downs, and other labor actions, and integrating the union and organizing Black waiters and cooks as a way to prevent them from being used as scabs.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-09-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Mitch Skory recalls his life in Lansing, MI, including establishing a television sales and service business in the early days of TV, opening several other businesses, the assimilation of the Lebanese community in the Lansing area and about relations with other ethnic and racial groups, a fire which destroyed a downtown hotel, the city phone system and party lines, the establishment of the REO manufacturing company, and the city turning Washington Ave into a pedestrian mall. Skory says that he is optimistic about Lansing's future. Skory is interviewed by Rebecca Hector-Kruth and others.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection