As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave fo — David T. Hardy, Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man
As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave fo — David T. Hardy, Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man
As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave fo — David T. Hardy, Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man
As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave fo — David T. Hardy, Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man
As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave fo — David T. Hardy, Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man
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As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate machine jobs and the skilled trades.' 

— David T. Hardy, Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man
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