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Session I, July 13, 1976
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Reel/Side
8/1-A
Time
0:00 to 0:25
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Introduction
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Reel/Side
8/1-A
Time
0:26 to 3:10
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Family background--grandparents of Irish descent--father worked with the Chicago and Northwestern R. R.--family with Janesville background
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Reel/Side
8/1-A
Time
3:11 to 5:53
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Father was a member of locomotive engineers union, Chicago lodge--dedicated union man
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Reel/Side
8/1-A
Time
5:54 to 8:10
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Parents as Democrats--Al Smith as a favorite political leader
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Reel/Side
8/1-A
Time
8:11 to 10:25
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Religious backgrounds--mother more committed than father
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Reel/Side
8/1-A
Time
10:27 to 18:44
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Parents' residences in Janesville--D. D.'s school experience--“secure childhood”--Grant elementary school--neighborhood friends, including Nick Luchsinger
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Reel/Side
8/1-A
Time
18:45 to 20:27
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Work experience before Fisher Body--lingerie factory--C & NW
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Reel/Side
8/1-A
Time
20:28 to 25:18
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Getting a job at Fisher--becoming used to the assembly line--“mankilling jobs”--meaning of “factory broke”
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Reel/Side
8/1-A
Time
25:19 to 28:55
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Drudgerous work, D. D. often wanted to quit--changing jobs helped--D. D. joined union to improve his life's work
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Reel/Side
8/1-B
Time
0:00 to 4:29
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Working conditions in paint department--relations with foremen--lack of breaks--“shystering a job”
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Reel/Side
8/1-B
Time
4:30 to 7:12
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Background of Fisher work force--many from northern Wisconsin--absence of black workers--some workers from Arkansas later
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Reel/Side
8/2-A
Time
0:00 to 0:12
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Introduction
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Reel/Side
8/2-A
Time
0:13 to 4:08
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Relationship with foremen prior to 1937--superintendent rough--plant manager
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Reel/Side
8/2-A
Time
4:09 to 12:00
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Attitudes toward capitalism, bitterness--experience with relief--blamed Hoover and Republicans--questioned system--desperate--class consciousness in 1932, union as a means of striking back
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Reel/Side
8/2-A
Time
12:01 to 15:23
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Reaction toward national figures--supported La Follettes--John L. Lewis as a hero--critical of AF of L
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Reel/Side
8/2-A
Time
15:24 to 17:14
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Dooley social life included Les Fay and Abe Shumacher, later fellow union leaders--church not a center of social activity
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Reel/Side
8/2-A
Time
17:15 to 21:37
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Decision to join union--not a member of earliest cadre--earliest recollections, hard to break through union secrecy
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Reel/Side
8/2-A
Time
21:38 to 24:08
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Very careful about union talk in plant--D. D. worked across from Les Fay--working conditions in paint spray booth, work before and after shift began
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Reel/Side
8/2-A
Time
24:09 to 27:00
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Seniority as most crucial need--need to break influence of foremen in rehiring
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Reel/Side
8/2-A
Time
27:01 to 28:41
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D. D.'s union membership--lapsed for a period prior to 1937 when he perceived that GM had beaten the union
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Reel/Side
8/2-B
Time
0:00 to 3:30
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D. D. first joined Federal Local 19324--it was ineffective--awareness of craft v. industrial unionism
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Reel/Side
8/2-B
Time
3:31 to 7:03
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Brief period of inactivity--reaction to Homer Martin of UAW-AFL--craft and industrial unionism at Fisher
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Reel/Side
8/2-B
Time
7:04 to 10:20
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Union leaders in paint spraying department--Les Fay--anti-union workers--age no factor
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Reel/Side
8/2-B
Time
10:21 to 12:35
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Experience as the key to unionism, more experienced as more militant--workers from rural areas harder to organize--ethnic or religious background made no difference
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Reel/Side
8/2-B
Time
12:36 to 14:08
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Three factions regarding unionism, their relative strength
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Reel/Side
8/2-B
Time
14:09 to 17:37
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Janesville citizens largely hostile to the union--criticism from the business community--use of terms “communistic” and “radical” and “crazy”
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Reel/Side
8/2-B
Time
17:38 to 21:06
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D. D. knew of no communists in Janesville then--recollection of local political leaders--Henry Traxler as anti-union
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Reel/Side
8/2-B
Time
21:07 to 24:07
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Churches and the union, little interaction--D. D. knew about Rerum Novarum, the papal encyclical supporting labor unions, but he did not learn about it through church, even though he is Catholic
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Reel/Side
8/2-B
Time
24:08 to 27:10
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Individual and group decisions to join the union--discharges for union activities
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Reel/Side
8/2-B
Time
27:11 to 31:18
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Aborted strike of paperhangers in 1935--friend fired--other, similar wildcat strikes
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