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LOGGER'S SHEET SI-FP-1987-CT-272  

LOGGER: L. RAMSDELL
REEL NUMBER: 2B/3A
STAGE:MICH. Talk
DATE:6/28/87
PRESENTOR: Yvonne Lockwood
GROUP NAME: Flintsitdown- Strike Remembered
REGION/STYLE:

PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION 
Bud Simons Fisher Body #1
Nellie Simons Womens Aux/Emergency Brigade
Shirley Foster Schoolteacher
Freddie Shern Plant #2
Burt Christianson Plant #2

CONTENTS
1. YL- strike background- results of strike Intros of speakers 
2. Bud S. Union formed 1933. SFL organizing. Split into craft unions- workers didn't like formation of underground unions- basements. Outside help- CID. Set date to strike. 
3. Plant #2 jumped deadline because inspectors fired
4. FA- firing of ins [[?]]- didnt expect 44- day strike when they sat down. Flint police
5. attacked one night. Use of firehoses on police by workers. (TAPE Change 2B/3A)
6. Some workers shot. Natl guard called in. O Rourke handling correspondence YL- water + food cut off NS- call for women to
7. support strikers. Q working conditions at time? Burt C - Glass- bleeding 
8. Fingers "son of a B- to work" NS- fired for attending union meeting. Was asked to 
9. help organize women. Work at die casting- getting old job back.
10. FA- working regulator boards. SF- on what "speedup" was- "get out the work."
11. BC- hand polishing- falling behind- "get aerose [[?]] that line" FA 3 cent check. 
12. SF- teachers untion- small. terrible pressure. Passing Natl Guard blockade on way to school. Feb 11 "Solidarity Forever" up the street. Exciting.
13. YL- on National guard. Bud S- John L Lewis & Gov Murphy. NS- another version Murphy & Lewis. BC- Murphy lost next election. later Supreme Ct. Justice. NS- organizing women. auxiliary then Emergency Brigade. red berets. Shutdown of plant 9. Women breaking windows. Blocking gate with locked arms. ("Solidarity forever" with audience joining in choruses solidarity chorus singing 2 verses) Bud. S- How strike helped workers all over country. FA- Property damage- only broken windows in Plant 9