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...their third wildcat strike in two months. The UAW local didn't support the walkout, though dissident groups inside the plant--like the all-black Eldon Avenue Revolutionary Union Movement--did. Johnson saw all this, and joined it to his own experience: the injuries, the conditions, the bullying foremen who called him "nigger" and "boy." In May he hurt himself in a car accident and his doctor told him to stay home and recover, but in a week Chrysler told him to return to work or be fired. He went back, but soon Chrysler sent him a letter saying...
...scholar of the future. He is writing at a time when today's people and classes have passed into history, along with the etiquettes and assumptions by which they lived. The scholar asks himself why people acted so irrationally at such obvious cost to themselves: why factory workers let foremen tell them what to do, why their sons went off to kill people with whom they might more profitably have allied themselves, why their daughters accepted theories of their own incapacity, how a ruling class professing to believe in freedom and equality reconciled itself to enforcing all these customs...
...basic question that Studs Terkel asks in his much ballyhooed collection of conversations with 135 Americans. The not very surprising answer: "I don't." A virtuoso of the unobtrusive mike, Terkel talked with elevator operators and company presidents, yacht salesmen and bricklayers, firemen and middle-managers, foremen and farmers and hair stylists-with those few who thought they were in control, with those many more who knew they were not. The excellence of the interviews is hard to convey in brief, since it is a stream-of-consciousness flow that gives them their quality. But the interview with Mike...
...racial strife continues between blacks and whites. Several whites charged that foremen and stewards (floor supervisors) are lenient with blacks who make mistakes. White workers say they think the foremen are too scared to "come down hard" on the blacks...
...battle isn't over (and probably never will be). In the current issue of Solidarity, the UAW's paper, a group of Ford, G.M. and Chrysler workers call for an end to compulsory overtime, one of their major gripes now against the Big Three auto companies. "The foremen are just lazy," complains the President of one Ford local. "They could get all the people they need to work overtime voluntarily, just by asking more people. It's easier for them to point to workers, like they do now, and say, 'You gotta work, or else...