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Session II, September 2, 1976
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Reel/Side
19/1-A
Time
0:00 to 0:15
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Introduction
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Reel/Side
19/1-A
Time
0:16 to 6:00
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J. J.'s political attitudes--moved away from family Republicanism--positive reaction to the La Follettes--first Wisconsin unemployment check
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Reel/Side
19/1-A
Time
6:01 to 8:26
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Extent of J. J.'s political activity--attitude toward free enterprise capitalism
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Reel/Side
19/1-A
Time
8:27 to 11:47
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Work problems at Fisher--problem with ordering a car at smaller dealer, Dickhoff in Milton
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Reel/Side
19/1-A
Time
11:48 to 23:58
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Elimination of company savings plan in 1934--worker reaction to that event--J. J. suspected that action was anti-union in purpose
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Reel/Side
19/1-A
Time
23:59 to 2755
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Plant managers as distant figures in the early years--being away from family
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Reel/Side
19/1-A
Time
27:56 to 29:10
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More on being away from family as result of union activity
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Reel/Side
19/1-B
Time
0:00 to 9:50
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Difficulty sending union representatives to conventions--fellow workers with whom J. J. socialized--get-togethers with the officers--early “victory” party
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Reel/Side
19/1-B
Time
9:51 to 18:31
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Membership in Oddfellows, quit after union involvement--importance of lodge and church affiliations--Janesville as “lily-white” town--J. J.'s reaction to the absence of black people in Janesville
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Reel/Side
19/1-B
Time
18:32 to 21:17
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Location of J. J.'s Janesville residences--uncertainty during World War II--commuting from Rock River home to GM
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Reel/Side
19/1-B
Time
21:18 to 24:48
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Nature of Janesville neighborhood--other GM workers and UAW members in that neighborhood--paying back relief money
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Reel/Side
19/1-B
Time
24:49 to 27:29
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More on Oddfellows--fellow union members who were also Oddfellows--getting a boost through lodges
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Reel/Side
19/1-B
Time
27:30 to 29:55
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Brief period working in Kansas City--also worked in Oakland during the Depression at Ford and GM
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Reel/Side
19/2-A
Time
0:00 to 0:10
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Introduction
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Reel/Side
19/2-A
Time
0:11 to 2:55
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J. J. returned to Janesville in the fall of 1933, saw union coming then, “people won't be held down”--plumbers card incident in Pittsburgh in 1924--J. J. waited for opportunity to join a labor union
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Reel/Side
19/2-A
Time
2:56 to 9:18
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J. J. observed early organizing efforts in Oakland, influenced by that experience--anxious to get involved
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Reel/Side
19/2-A
Time
9:19 to 14:14
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Recollection of first Janesville UAW meeting at the Lien Garage--current location of that building--union card numbers not in order--relationship to Waldo Luchsinger and Lou Adkins--union drew people together
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Reel/Side
19/2-A
Time
14:15 to 17:07
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Nature of work after return to Janesville in 1933--metal finishing and welding--the work of the metal finisher
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Reel/Side
19/2-A
Time
17:08 to 22:58
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J. J.'s early involvement with the UAW in Janesville--first mass meeting at the Beverly Theater--comments on pensions
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Reel/Side
19/2-A
Time
22:59 to 27:19
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Further comments on J. J.'s early union activity--more on first meeting at Lien Garage, small group--many fearful for jobs early--organizing accomplished by local people, different from Oakland
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Reel/Side
19/2-A
Time
27:20 to 30:22
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Early members from the body shop--recruiting on the sly
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Reel/Side
19/2-B
Time
0:00 to 2:50
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Recruiting in the plant, against company rules--most members signed up in plant
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Reel/Side
19/2-B
Time
2:51 to 14:00
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Fear as an impediment to organizing--the GM Alliance, weak effort--limits on organizing activities in the plant--body shop hard to organize--need to control violence--UAW as most democratic union
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Reel/Side
19/2-B
Time
14:01 to 21:21
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Auto workers needed the CIO, workers bound together only by need to organize, no ethnic or religious bonds--early union members tended to be the more experienced GM workers--older workers as more reluctant to join-local UAW leaders from Janesville
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Reel/Side
19/2-B
Time
21:22 to 23:58
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Small town and farm people as harder to organize--most workers as unsophisticated and untravelled--J. J. had wider range of experience than most
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Reel/Side
19/2-B
Time
23:59 to 26:24
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Politics of early members, not overwhelmingly Democratic at that time, became so before long
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