Posted by Spook on December 03, 2019 at 06:18:21 from (104.63.94.180):
In Reply to: Rosie the riviter posted by Grandpa love on November 30, 2019 at 18:27:16:
I had one great aunt that worked in the willow run factory. The factory closed after the war, then was bought by Frazier? Building cars. That only lasted a couple of years. Then GM s transmission plant burned down, they bought the plant, turned it into the Ypsilanti transmission plant. One of my grandfather s was a small dairy farmer in Livonia, just outside Detroit. He also was a mechanic, butcher. He was recruited, by a local labor board to work at the Ford rouge plant during the war. He lost an eye there. Weirdly, the same labor board assigned a Jamacian guy to help at his farm. My other grandfather worked a Cadillac motors, they built light tanks, plus a lot of components for other war equipment. Both grandfathers raised chickens, truck crops, and the farmer raised pigs and beef also. My grandfather who worked at Ford s made a lot more money selling his farm stuff at work than he got paid. I suspect that it was all off books. He did have problems with neighbors during the war, as he got a gasoline allotment for his farm. He had to lock up his tank, one neighbor was still not talking to him when I was a kid, 20 years later. Both of my grandmother s had jobs of working also, even though they had kids at home, they had a program to do piecework at home. I think the rouge had over 50K workers during the day.
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