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Sam Fishman Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001693
Abstract
Sam Fishman was born January 24, 1924 and spent the majority of his adult life involved with the labor movement in Michigan. He was originally an assembler and machinist for the Ford Motor Company and eventually became an official in UAW Local 400. He later was elected Vice-President of UAW Local 99 and then President of UAW Local 36 at the Ford Assembly Plant. Fishman would go on to serve as head of the UAW Community Action Program (CAP) for 12 years until his election as president of the...
Dates:
1966 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1984
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
UAW Local 7 Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000187
Abstract
Subjects include: Chrysler Jefferson Avenue assembly plant (Detroit); absenteeism; civil rights; 1950 Chrysler strike; factionalism; fair employment practices; skilled trades; Taft-Hartley Act.
Dates:
1938 - 1975
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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