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- Description:
- A retired Chevrolet Plant No. 4 worker, he discusses his Missouri upbringing, welfare during the Depression, working conditions, and socialism
- Date Issued:
- 1984-07-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- He discusses his personal history, including encounters with the IWW in Minnesota; involvement in the Socialist Party and in organizing the unemployed and workers. He also discusses his work in the Sit-Down Strike at Chevrolet 9
- Date Issued:
- 1979-08-27T00:00:00Z
- 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 an organizer sent by the Socialist Party, the Daily Strike Bulletin; Genora comments about Flint Socialists; Fish's organizing dry cleaning workers in Flint, and Genora discusses the Women's Emergency Brigade. He recalls his experiences at Brookwood Labor College
- Date Issued:
- 1975-05-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- The retired left-wing Chevrolet worker discusses the International Workers of the World, left-wing movements, and the sit-down strike leaders
- Date Issued:
- 1992-05-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- She recalls the Sit-Down Strike from her vantage point as member of the Women's Auxiliary and wife of a leader at Chevrolet Plant No. 10 and discusses her life as an autoworker beginning in World War II
- Date Issued:
- 1988-06-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- University of Michigan-Flint Labor History Project
- Description:
- Socialist Party organizer in Michigan at the time of the sit-down strike, he discusses raising money to support Socialist Hy Fish, his observations of the sit-down strike, and politics in the UAW after the strike
- Date Issued:
- 1979-06-12T00:00:00Z
- 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