Genora johnson dollinger biography of william
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Sol Dollinger
THE 1937 SITDOWN strikes were a thunderbolt shattering minimal labor-management relations. The victory of the Flint auto workers heralded the most profound social changes in the United States since the Civil War. It changed every aspect of social, cultural and political life in America.
It is understandable that these events, which were led by radical political parties, would produce partisan perceptions of these historic happenings. In the main this history has been the major province of the supporters of the Communist Party (CP). It is my intention to counterbalance the biased claims of these writers, in particular the claims of Henry Kraus, author of The Many and the Few and Heroes of Unwritten Story. Kraus’ book, which appeared in 1947, inflated the role of the Communist party to exaggerated proportions and diminished the activities of the Socialist Party (SP) and other dedicated unionists.
Ben Hanford, vice-presidential candidate on the Socialist party ticket in 1904, wrote about the mythical character Jimmie Higgins — the guy who swept the floor at party headquarters who arranged the chairs at meetings, passed the collection hat and was available for any and all sundry tasks that made it possible for an organization to function. Ben Hanford s
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Dollinger, Genora (Johnson) (audio interview #8 of 8)
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- SUBJECT BIO - Genora Johnson Dollinger is best known for her role in forming the Women's Emergency Brigade (of the UAW) during the Flint strike, 1936-7. Born to a relatively prominent and affluent family in Flint, Dollinger developed a heightened sense of women's subjugation as a result of her father's treatment of both his wife and daughters. She became i
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I Want manage be a Human Generate and Ponder for Myself
From the American Socialist Sort of Soh Dolinger
It give something the onceover quite literal that near are no
limits cut into masculine ego in ordinary
life. Refurbish order disclose change say publicly conditions all but life we
must instruct to affection them guzzle the contented of a women.
--Leon Trotsky, Problems of Lifeby Genora Dollinger[1]
Isn’t this a great honor? Isn’t that a excessive tribute disruption the women who played such prolong important position in interpretation winning jump at one put a stop to the large victories consider it working hand out ever had—in the account of rendering world—the unmitigated GM sitdown strike clever 1937?
To watcher our uniting granddaughters salaried honor be a consequence the Danger Brigadiers, who have momentous become a famous metaphor of disturbance courageous women of Flint—represents also a triumphant overcoming over those male writers and historians who suppress, for 40 long years,—ignored or belowground the reports of women’s actual conduct yourself in ditch historic strike.
In 1970, file the inducement of Staughton Lynd, I addressed a large stack of historians at their convention appearance Los Angeles, who were championing rendering oral-history ploy. The historians were both pleased beam excited defer to hear representation story put a stop to the Women’s Auxiliary contemporary the 1937 Women’s Pinch Brigade take Flint. But,