Unemployment and fight against starvation
Breaking into history as narrative is a tricky business, where one is
inevitably charged with leaving out an event of importance. This charge is true
but stops no one from breaking into history as narrative.
The battle against unemployment and
II.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his first of four presidential elections in
1932, with America not just knee deep in economic depression, wages of
starvation and an endless series of bad hair days. When Roosevelt took office
March 4, 1933, the Nazi Party had been in power 32 days. In
At that time, the old City Hall in Detroit was located on Michigan and
Woodward Avenues. We had a mayor then by the name of Frank Murphy. He was kind
of a liberal guy. Mayor Murphy came out and waved at us and said, I’m with
you all the way, and raised his hand like that. That sent up a big
The Dave Moore Interview II.
PA: When was the first time you started working on organizing the auto
unions?
DM: I got hired at Ford in 1935 making 60 cents an hour in the foundry.
That’s where they put all the Blacks. We had a few Italians. We had a few
Polish and what not. They had
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