Interview with John Barnard about UAW organizing and collective bargaining in automobile and farm machinery plants in Wisconsin and Illinois, especially during the 1930’s and 1940’s. Release included.
Interview about his career with the UAW and his involvement with the United Farm Workers, Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign and the antiwar and civil rights movements.
This interview takes place in two parts. Part one is an interview with George Heliker, in 1954. Part two with Dennis East about unionizing Ford Motor Company and the history of UAW Local 600. during the 1940’s and 1950’s.