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Session I, June 17, 1976
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Reel/Side
3/1-A
Time
0:00 to 0:25
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Introduction
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Reel/Side
3/1-A
Time
0:26 to 12:40
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Family background, near Dubuque, Iowa--Mosalem township--brothers and sisters--home at St. Catherine's, Iowa--high school education--farm in the hills--Catholic family--Democrats
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Reel/Side
3/1-A
Time
12:41 to 15:50
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Newspapers as source of information--Dubuque newspapers--family reaction to Al Smith as presidential candidate
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Reel/Side
3/1-A
Time
15:51 to 19:05
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FDR as first political hero--Mosalem reacted against Prohibition, home brews
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Reel/Side
3/1-A
Time
19:06 to 23:30
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Characteristics of Mosalem township--R. H.'s uncle as shrewd politician--cheating at polls--size of family
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Reel/Side
3/1-A
Time
23:31 to 29:20
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Farming as hard work--mother as dominant influence, particularly on education--occupations of brothers and sisters
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Reel/Side
3/1-B
Time
0:00 to 5:38
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Recollection of elementary school, parochial school--teaching of German dropped--Franciscan nuns--Dubuque as “little Rome”--getting out of school to plow
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Reel/Side
3/1-B
Time
5:39 to 9:58
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Mother's insistence on high school education--father's attitude less favorable to education, workers needed on farm
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Reel/Side
3/1-B
Time
9:59 to 14:49
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Uncle as political influence on R. H.--interest in history--office work as alternative to farming
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Reel/Side
3/1-B
Time
14:50 to 16:12
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Labor movement not mentioned in schools--uncle in railroad strike
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Reel/Side
3/1-B
Time
16:13 to 24:58
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Little recollection of class awareness--older than most high school students--social studies teacher who later defected to Germany--little support for Germany during WW I--friends and associates in high school
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Reel/Side
3/1-B
Time
24:59 to 26:34
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Good teachers, bookkeeping teacher--comments on women teachers
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Reel/Side
3/1-B
Time
26:35 to 27:55
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Work experience prior to Janesville
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Reel/Side
3/2-A
Time
0:00 to 0:10
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Introduction
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Reel/Side
3/2-A
Time
0:11 to 4:05
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Influence of brother Joe who came to Janesville before Ralph--first day at Fisher
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Reel/Side
3/2-A
Time
4:06 to 8:06
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R. H. joined UAW at Fisher--lay off in 1934--further comments on getting the job at Fisher--Bill Lee in the employment office--relatively easy for R. H.
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Reel/Side
3/2-A
Time
8:07 to 10:35
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First job for R. H. on the assembly line--then to the seat framing department
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Reel/Side
3/2-A
Time
10:36 to 12:44
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Brother Joe coming to Janesville--first drove for Bennison and Lane Bakery
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Reel/Side
3/2-A
Time
12:45 to 17:25
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Adjusting to the assembly line, need for money--prior attitudes about labor unions--cooperative back home--joining the union
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Reel/Side
3/2-A
Time
17:26 to 28:41
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The speed-up at Fisher Body, the primary grievance--line speed uneven--the piece work system, another major grievance
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Reel/Side
3/2-B
Time
0:00 to 4:50
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Development of R. H.'s interest in the union, related to speed-up--Myron Rothman as a radical influence on R. H.
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Reel/Side
3/2-B
Time
4:51 to 15:16
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The seat framing department, twelve men--located on cushion sub-assembly line--Lou Adkins there--bosses and foremen--tough cushion department supervisor--hard work--response to request for help, time study man from Detroit
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Reel/Side
3/2-B
Time
15:17 to 18:07
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Lou Adkins as a spokesman for the group--leadership
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Reel/Side
3/2-B
Time
18:08 to 26:23
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Anti-union workers in cushion department--Nick Luchsinger as outspoken unionist--Waldo Luchsinger--cushion department as center of union activity, due to workers located there--diverse group
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Reel/Side
3/2-B
Time
26:24 to 30:06
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Body shop as another center of unionism--hard work in the body shop--Straus Ellis unwelcome in body shop--nature of body shop work, one third of workers there
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Reel/Side
3/2-B
Time
30:07 to 33:52
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Company union--anti-union workers held no distinctive traits, except for their anti-unionism
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