[Layton Aves discusses his career as a production worker and UAW organizer at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond REO Trucks, Inc.].

Layton Aves, a production worker and UAW organizer at REO Motor Cars/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc., claims that in the 1940s only Ku Klux Klan members were allowed to join the union and work at the Lansing, MI plant. Aves says the UAW cooperated with the Klan in order to increase its strength and ability...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	REO Memories (Project)
Other Authors:	Aves, Layton (Interviewee) Fine, Lisa M. (Interviewer) Bradley, Shirley J. (Interviewer)
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1995]
Subjects:	Aves, Layton > Interviews. Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews. Reo Motor Car Company > Interviews. Diamond REO Trucks, Inc. > Interviews. Aves, Layton. Automobile industry and trade. Labor union locals > Michigan > Lansing. Race discrimination > Michigan > Lansing. Industrial relations > Michigan > Lansing. Productivity accounting > Michigan > Lansing. Aves, Layton > Family. Oral histories.
Genre:	Interviews. Oral histories.
Online Access:	Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:	1 electronic audio file (70 min., 24 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format:	Audio Software

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