Always Bring a Crowd!: The Story of Frank Lumpkin Steelworker

by Lumpkin, Beatrice

• ISBN13: 9780717807253
• ISBN10: 0717807258
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Intl Pub

Author Biography

Beatrice Lumpkin, the author, is Frank Lumpkin's wife. She was chair of the Wisconsin Steel Workers Women's Committee.

Table of Contents

List of Photographs	p. vi
Foreword	p. viii
Preface	p. xv
Introduction: Incredible Victory	p. 1
The Lumpkin Family
Red Earth and Blue Stone Growing Up in the Groves	p. 5
Fight Your Way Up	p. 30
Flight to the North	p. 36
War Abroad and at Home Who Won the War?	p. 45
Chicago and Wisconsin Steel
Chicago and Wisconsin Steel Injury and Death at Work	p. 72
Fighting Racism and Sexism Community Organizing	p. 92
Meeting Workers Around the World	p. 124
Save our Jobs
Don't Come in Tomorrow!	p. 139
Fight or Die--the Save our Jobs Committee	p. 152
SOJ Sues Harvester-Navistar Jobs for Steel Workers	p. 174
Justice Delayed--the Case Against Envirodyne	p. 196
Political Action
Political Action and Mayor Washington	p. 208
Send a Steel Worker to Springfield	p. 216
Rebuild our Cities--Create Jobs	p. 225
The Way It Could Be	p. 232
Notes	p. 243
Index	p. 249
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