Labor history figures leaders quotes slogans Flint Sit-down auto links
July 10 04 Fuel cost calculator www.fuelcostcalculator.com
Tech TV www.gizwizbiz.com
The Screen Savers www.thescreensavers.com
Visit Flint www.visitflint.org
History of Labor Day www.emotionscards.com/trivia/fourthofjuly/laborday.html
Labor Union Periodicals historical list
The Metal Trades www.lexisnexis.com/academic/guides/labor_studies/labor_union_per/labor1.htm
Printing Trades www.lexisnexis.com/academic/guides/labor_studies/labor_union_per/labor2.htm
Food & Agricultural Industries www.lexisnexis.com/academic/guides/labor_studies/labor_union_per/labor3.htm
100 years of Spark Plugs www.edgeta.org/splug.htm
Automotive History Flint Michigan Public Library
www.flint.lib.mi.us/timeline/directory.html
Sloan Museum traces Flint's rich automotive history, Joyrides Detroit News newspaper article old classic auto photos & pictures www.detnews.com/joyrides/1999/sloan/sloan.htm
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General Motors Sit-Down Strike Fisher Body Plant One Flint Michigan historical marker photo www.michmarkers.com/Pages/S0497A.htm
Flint Sit-Down Chevrolet Plant No. 4 historical marker picture www.michmarkers.com/Pages/S0497C.htm
First General Motors UAW contract agreement 1937 White Shirt Day http://community.webtv.net/blacklava/contract/
GM Sit-Down Journal www.flintsitdown.com
Michigan Historical Markers Auto Industry Menu www.michmarkers.com/Menu/X0034.htm
Labor in 1930's bibliography New Deal Network http://newdeal.feri.org/laborbib/subject.htm
Autolite Spark Plug Plant History www.fostoria.org/history/autolite/Autolite3.html
Wright B Flyer www.dayton.net/~wbflyer/organization.html
ARPAnet & Internet History Hobbes' Internet Timeine http://info.isoc.org/guest/Zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html
Labor in 1930s: A Thumbnail Sketch www.csudh.edu/hux/syllabi/554/four.html
U.S. Labor History Chronology Chapter 6 www.ctcop.org/lesect6.html
Heroes of American Labor http://www15.inetba.com/saturnuaw/filecabinet/Satfile/heroes.html
Give Us Bread AND Roses Internet Hotlist on US Labor History www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listuslabwo.html
Henry Ford Time 100
www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/ford3.html
Working Families AFL CIO www.workingfamilies.com
Arcade Games fun educational www.aflcio.org/family/funresources/games/
Voice of America News www.voanews.com
Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees Clothing Laundry www.uniteunion.org
UNITE! Links Page www.uniteunion.org/links/index.cfm
Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union www.hereunion.org
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists www.cbtu.org
National Labor Committee www.nlcnet.org
US Labor Education America Project www.usleap.org
California History Social Science Project
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/imageapp.php?Major=LB&Minor=D
Labor Quotes from Michigan Labor Legacy Arch
from
www.iuoelocal547.com/legacy_quotes.htm
Labor's Achievements are America's Strength
The Following Quotations Appear on the Arch On Each Side of the Arch:
The arc of history bends toward justice. Martin Luther King Jr.
On the Walkway:
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass - Anti-slavery leader.
We want more schoolhouses and less jails...more justice and less revenge. Samuel Gompers - First president, American Federation of Labor
On the Dais:
Education is the golden key that unlocks the potential of human growth.
Walter P. Reuther - UAW president, 1946-1970.
Women were in labor before men were born.
Myra Wolfgang - Hotel workers' leader.
The future depends on what we do in the present. Mahatma Gandhi - Anti-colonialist leader, India.
We want bread, and roses, too. Lawrence (Mass.) strike slogan, 1912.
We just come to work here, we don't come to die. Harry Stamper - Longshoreman, musician.
An injury to one is the concern of all. Knights of Labor (f. 1869) slogan.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. - Civil rights pioneer.
'Each for himself' is the bosses' plea. A union of all will make you free. 1869 Detroit Labor Day parade sign.
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. Mary Harris (Mother) Jones - Union advocate and organizer.
Don't mourn, organize. Joe Hill - IWW organizer.
El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido. The people united will never be defeated. Cesar Chavez - Founder, United Farm Workers
If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. Attributed to Emma Goldman - Radical, feminist.
The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people of all nations. Abraham Lincoln - President, 1861-1865.
Ten hours or no sawdust. Saginaw lumber strike slogan for shorter workday, 1880.
There is a direct relationship between the ballot box and the breadbox. Walter P. Reuther - UAW president, 1946-1970.
We're just honest working men that have been pushed so far and so hard that we can't keep it up any longer. Frances O'Rourke - 1937 UAW-GM Flint sitdown striker.
Labor creates all wealth. Adam Smith - 18th century economist. Some men rob you with a six-gun, others rob you with a fountain pen. Woody Guthrie - musician and organizer.
When I rise it will be with the ranks and not from the ranks. Eugene V. Debs - Union leader and Socialist politician.
There is a time to be tough, a time to be adament, a time to be open to compromise, and a time to reach agreement. James R. Hoffa - Teamsters union president, 1957-1971.
Power goes to two poles - to those who've got the money and those who've got the people. Saul Alinsky - Community organizer and writer.
They can cut off our fingers one by one, but if we join together we will make a powerful fist. Little Turtle - Miami Indian, 1791.
If I went to work in a factory, the first thing I'd do would be to join a union. Franklin D. Roosevelt - President, 1932-1945.
Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted. A. Philip Randolph - Union and civil-rights leader.
What is wanted by the ruling circle is a docile, spineless, unorganized and inarticulate army of workers. Nelson Mandela - South African freedom fighter and president.
Black people worked 350 years without a paycheck. Janice Hale Benson
- Wayne State University professor.
All great reforms, great movements, come from the bottom and not the top. John Peter Altgeld - Illinois governor, 1893-1897.
What labor is demanding all over the world today is ...a right to a voice in the conduct of industry. Sidney Hillman - First president, Clothing Workers union.
The future of labor is the future of America. John L. Lewis - President, Mine Workers, 1920-1960.
Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, and eight hours for what we will. 19th century slogan for 8-hour workday.
We make our own history. UAW 50th anniversary slogan, 1985.
Who will take care of you, how'll you get by, When you're too old to work and too young to die. Joe Glazer - labor singer/songwriter.
Teachers want what children need. Mary Ellen Riordan - Detroit Federation of Teacher president.
We want liberated visions in history remembered. Melba Boyd - Wayne State University professor.
Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead. Eleanor Roosevelt - Human rights leader; first lady, 1932-1945.
Cast me not out in my old age. Isaiah
If the federal government can pay farmers for not raising food, they can subsidize honest jobs for people. Coleman A. Young - Detroit Mayor.
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or an article of commerce. Clayton Anti-Trust Act, 1914.
I believe people should have the dignity of working for a living wage. Clement Kern - Pastor, Most Holy Trinity Church and Detroit's "labor priest"
These Milestones of Labor are engraved on stones throughout the spiral walkway at the Labor Legacy Landmark:
Free Public Education
Ending Child Labor
Equality for Woman
Protection of Civil Rights
Social Security
Shorter Worktime/More Leisure
Right to Organize
Collective Bargaining Agreements
Job Security
Health Insurance
Guaranteed Pensions
Grievance Procedures
Health and Safety Protection
Human Rights
Solidarity Across Borders
Visit Michigan Labor Legacy Project
www.laborlegacy.org
Another Labor Legacy Project at
Pittsburgh & Western Pennsylvania Labor Legacy
Project www.library.pitt.edu/labor_legacy/
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Joyrides - Detroit News http://info.detnews.com/joyrides/
Michgan Lottery Numbers www.detnews.com/lottery/index.htm
Rear View Mirror Detroit News The Auto Industry's Family Trees http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=176&category=business
Rear View Mirror archive index http://info.detnews.com/history/index.cfm?action=archive
C-Span Policy Organization Links www.c-span.org/resources/policyorgs.asp
Media organizations www.c-span.org/resources/mediaorgs.asp
Canadian Committee on Labour History - labour related sites list www.mun.ca/cclh/
Nevada Labor Information www.nevadalabor.com
Nevada AFL-CIO www.nvaflcio.org
CRAYON News Links - http://crayon.net/using/links.html
Old Farmer's Almanac www.almanac.com
Haymarket Martyr's Monument http://my.execpc.com/~blake/haymar~1.htm
American Journeys www.americanjourneys.org
Historical Society of Michigan www.hsmichigan.org
links & history www.hsmichigan.org/histlinks.psp
Michigan History Magazine dedicated to the history of the Great Lakes State www.michiganhistorymag.com
Award winning Trades Union Congress History Online T.U.C. www.unionhistory.info/links.php
Carpenters Union history www.carpenters.org/history/pj.html
Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers Int'l Union History www.insulators.org/history.htm
Working Stiff Journal http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/wsj.htm
Labor time line www.timelines.ws/subjects/Labor.HTML
Timelines of History, Today in History, World History www.timelines.ws
Labor unions fight for their rights http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/ward-union.html
UAW Education labor in the schools www.uaw.org/edu/student/edu01.cfm
US Labor History www.state.sd.us/deca/DDN4Learning/ThemeUnits/USLabor/past.htm
Yahoo! Directory U.S. Labor History http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Subject/Labor/
Holt Labor Library www.holtlaborlibrary.org
Genora Johnson Dollinger, "An Oral History" www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersociaist/gdollinger01.htm
Genora Johnson Dollinger "I Warned Reuther"
www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersociaist/gdollinger02.htm
Genora Johnson Dollinger "I Want To Be a Human Being and Think For Myself" www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersociaist/gdollinger03.htm
Dollinger Biography with pictures & photos great flint sit-down strike 1936 to 1937 http://academic.evergreen.edu/s/sinkan10/
Samuel Gompers May Day Speech 8 hour workday
www.marxists.org/subject/mayday/articles/gompers.html
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