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Sam Sweet Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000841
Abstract
An activist in the early labor movement, Sam Sweet aided in the organization of the Flint General Motors workers and the Briggs workers in Detroit, and served as Education Director for United Auto Workers (UAW) Locals 155, 51, and 742. Granted citizenship in 1946, Mr. Sweet faced repeated government attempts to revoke his citizenship due to alleged Communist affiliation.Part I of Mr. Sweet’s papers primarily relate to his activities as Education Director of various UAW locals and as...
Dates:
1938 - 1989
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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