[Jack Down discusses his career at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond REO Trucks, Inc.].

Jack Down, an R. E. Olds Transporation Museum volunteer and former REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc. employee, recalls his experiences with the company and his life in the Greater Lansing, MI area. Down talks about his youth in East Lansing, attending Michigan State College, his jobs pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: REO Memories (Project)
Other Authors: Down, Jack (Autoworker) (Interviewee), Fine, Lisa M. (Interviewer), Bradley, Shirley J. (Interviewer)
Language:English
Published: [1992]
Subjects:
Down, Jack > Interviews.
Down, Jack.
Down, Jack > Childhood and youth.
Cappaert, Francis > Influence.
Reo Motor Car Company > Interviews.
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc. > Interviews.
Reo Motor Car Company > Buildings.
Reo Motor Car Company > History.
General Motors Corporation. > Oldsmobile Division > History.
General Motors Corporation. > Fisher Body Division > History.
Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Automobile industry and trade.
Work environment > Michigan > Lansing.
Pension trusts > Termination.
Labor disputes > Michigan > Lansing.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (63 min., 30 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format: Audio Software
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Jack Down, an R. E. Olds Transporation Museum volunteer and former REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc. employee, recalls his experiences with the company and his life in the Greater Lansing, MI area. Down talks about his youth in East Lansing, attending Michigan State College, his jobs prior to working for REO, the factory buildings and land around the plant, the REO Clubhouse, and the beginnings of the REO Motor Car Company and the Oldsmobile and Fisher Body operations in Lansing. He also discusses the tragedy of owner Francis Cappaert raiding the REO worker's pension fund and the turmoil of the Lansing Labor Holiday and the labor confrontation known as the Battle of the Red Cedar. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
Note:Title supplied.
Electronic resource.
Call Number:Voice 16259
Playing Time:01:03:30
System Details:Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
Event Details:
Interviewed and recorded in Lansing by Shirley J. Bradley and Lisa M. Fine, Feb. 18, 1992.