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UNIVIS Strike, late 1940s
UNIVIS Strike, late 1940s
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Jeffrey59
1 post
Mar 11, 2008
6:02 PM
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Im doing some research on the Univis strike in the late 1940s...Univis was on Stanley or Leo, just west of Keowee.
I would like to hear what you all remember of it.
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rodat6
5 posts
Mar 11, 2008
8:26 PM
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I remember a bunch of soldiers being all around although I was about 6, born in 42. As kids living in Parkside we would play all over the area and there was a lens place with a fenced in yard where big boxes of glass lenses were stored by the thousands. We could reach through the chain link and pull a lens out, like a very thick, quarter inch or more piece of glass, one side clear the other matt. The lenses were exposed to the weather and the boxes were like paperboard and were well weathered, sagging a lot of them.
The location was just north of Parkside by a street or two, Stanley maybe, in that area.
I remember another time when the military used McCook (Kettering) field for war games, I was around 10, early Fifties. The had tents all over, they had machine guns and rifles shooting blanks at each other, I was impressed and wanted to be a Marine like my father had been. I owned every piece of surplus equipment one could have including a Mae West with co2 canisters for quick inflation.
I joined the Navy when I turned 17, Submarine duty, photography but neither parent would sign for me, not my father who lived in Kettering with his new wife or my mother who was visiting a sister in Coral Gables, I hitchhiked there by myself, had 95 cents when I left, had 90 but panhandled 5 pennies which I suppose gave me enough to leave. Had 10 cents when I arrived in Coral Gables, mom said no and flew me back on a Delta DC7, 4 engine plane. Wow. That was my first plane ride.
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upbowers13
1 post
Mar 23, 2008
4:58 PM
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I was born in 1942
My grandfather worked for the "Dayton Sash @ Door Co" (I believe that was the name of the company). He was a carpenter. He would teach me about building. He would teach me how to use his jigsaw and other tools. My grandmother gave the jigsaw to me when she sold her house.
My grandmother also told me he rode a white horse in the strike.
I am involved in labor and unions and would like to know more about the strike.
Does anyone know anything about this?
I did not find this out until he had already passed.
Thanks
Last Edited by on Mar 23, 2008 5:10 PM
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gris66
96 posts
Feb 18, 2013
8:16 AM
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This was a major police event in Dayton history; it lasted for months at a time when there was also the serious undercurrent of the Cold War. It did not end until after the Governor brought in the National Guard and even then, labor leaders had difficulty getting their members to return to work. The building still exists on McCook but the exterior (and probably the interior) was remodeled about two years ago.
Time Magazine had an article in 1948 called "Labor: Brass Knuckles".
I don't know about it's accuracy but here is a link that provides considerable background and some pictures: http://daytonos.com/?p=1817.
The Ohio Historical Society has a DVD of film take over the course of a few days by WHIO radio (yes, radio... the television station had not begun operation).
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