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...Flint-chinned Joseph Fay was a man of appalling power. As vice president of the A.F.L. International Union of Operating Engineers, bellicose Joey Fay bossed the building trades of the New York-New Jersey area for years, and labor leaders, industrialists and politicians paid him homage. (Once Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City welcomed him home from a European trip with a chartered boat and the Jersey City police band aboard.) But Joey got into trouble: in 1945 he and his pal Jim Bove, vice president of the Hod Carriers Union, got 7½-to-15-year prison stretches...
...been eleven weeks since the great tornado ripped through the suburbs of Flint, Mich., killing 113, injuring 547, and destroying $12 million worth of property (TIME, June 22). The residents of Beecher Township, hardest hit by the storm, had been struggling to rebuild their homes. But only foundations and a few frames stood among the ugly scars of destruction. Then, in less than 48 hours last weekend, Beecher Township rose from the ruins...
...idea was supplied by the Rev. Henry W. Berkemeier, pastor of the township's St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. Most of the residents had insurance or could get loans to cover the cost of building materials, the priest reasoned, but would the citizens of Flint volunteer a weekend of their labor to do the rebuilding? The people of Flint responded with a spirit that seemed to match the force of the tornado...
...wanted rebuilding aid (196 in all) registered with a civic committee and volunteer workers signed up with the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The owners finished the foundations, had building materials brought to the site. Building contractors supplied trucks, tools and supervisors. Restaurants prepared thousands of free box lunches. The Flint C.I.O. Council donated $1,500 to insure all the workers...
...Saturday, following a prayer by Father Berkemeier ("We ask You to bless our time and our talent that we may always use them as well, as unselfishly, as at this moment"), the volunteers went to work. They had come by bus, car, bicycle and on foot, not only from Flint but from Detroit, Dearborn and other cities. One high-school boy hitchhiked from Cleveland. Lawyers and bankers toiled next to laborers and tellers. C.I.O. worked with A.F.L, and both worked alongside non-unionists. Flint's old (78) Charles Stewart Mott, a multimillionaire director of (and once the largest single...