[Harold Janetzke and Eileen Janetzke discuss their career at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond REO Trucks, Inc.].

Harold Janetzke recalls his career as a timekeeper and engineer at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc. in Lansing, MI, from 1936 to 1975. He describes the 1937 strike that brought the UAW into REO, his move to engineering and attending Michigan State College. He says that the Great Depres...

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Corporate Author: REO Memories (Project)
Other Authors: Janetzke, Harold (Interviewee), Janetzke, Eileen (Interviewee), Fine, Lisa M. (Interviewer), Bradley, Shirley J. (Interviewer)
Language:English
Published: [1992]
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Janetzke, Harold > Interviews.
Janetzke, Eileen > Interviews.
Janetzke, Harold.
Janetzke, Eileen.
Janetzke, Eileen > Marriage.
Janetzke, Harold > Marriage.
Reo Motor Car Company > Interviews.
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc. > Interviews.
Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Automobile industry and trade.
General strikes > Michigan > Lansing.
Labor unions > Recognition > Michigan > Lansing.
Depressions > 1929 > Michigan > Lansing.
World War, 1939-1945 > Economic aspects > Michigan > Lansing.
Plant shutdowns > Michigan > Lansing.
Pension trusts > Termination.
Lansing (Mich.) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Oral histories.
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Interviews.
Oral histories.
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Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (69 min., 30 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
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