Transcript
Index
00:00:02 - Introduction
00:00:35 - Fairbanks-Morse workers choose the CIO over the AF of L for their Steelworkers local--AF of L closed to blacks and less skilled workers--skilled workers vs. unskilled workers
00:08:16 - Sitdown strike at Fairbanks-Morse--no strike during World War II--strike of 1946 resulted from backlog of World War II grievances
00:12:13 - Union leadership--Neal Harris recalls an organizer from Birmingham, Alabama, who preached cooperation between black and white workers--blacks as strikebreakers in Beloit--dirty work
00:20:37 - Anti-union workers--“clamping down” on a non-union worker--need for unity
00:24:48 - Union organizers--Neal Harris' reaction to John L. Lewis--Emil Costello as a Wisconsin CIO organizer--stalling a strike
00:29:22 - Survival during a strike
00:32:04 - Reaction of Harris family to Neal's participation in strike--Hostility of most Beloit residents
00:36:01 - Communists and the union--the need for unity--pay cut as a motive for union organization
00:41:36 - The union as a "godsend for the poor people"
00:42:55 - Neal Harris and the church--church as a focus for unity in the black community--church activities at Tuskegee--Veterans Hospital and segregation in Tuskegee--KKK in Tuskegee
00:52:43 - The KKK in Beloit
00:58:43 - Neal Harris' church activity in Beloit, joined church right away
01:01:27 - Church little different from South--Neal Harris comfortable in black churches
01:08:22 - Difference between the South and Beloit in exercise of voting rights--fear of courts and police in the South, absent in Beloit
01:15:28 - Neal Harris as a Republican--“effects“ of Woodrow Wilson--desire to enter the army during World War I--Neal Harris in Tuskegee ROTC under Benjamin 0. Davis
01:26:51 - Stories about the North which circulated in the South--tough stories about Chicago
