Bob Stinson spent his whole life working for the Fischer Body Plants, nearly 46
years. He started off at the plant in Detroit, but got laid off in the fall of
1931. He decided to look for work at the plant in Flint, Michigan and got hired
"right off the bat." There was no union back then, Bob described this as being
"at the mercy of your foreman." "You might call yourself a man, but as soon and
you went through the door and punched your card, you was nothing more or less
than a robot," Bob says during an oral interview conducted by Studs Turkel. On
Christmas Eve, 1936 Bob was in Detroit celebrating with his family. When he came
home that night, he learned that the Flint sit-down had begun. Within five
minutes, the workers of the second shift had shut down the entire Fischer Body
Plant. All of the women were asked to go home, but the supervisors and plant
police were permitted to stay as long as they did not interfere with the workers.
Bob describes the plant workers as......

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Title: Flint Sit Down
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