Mildred Alspaugh, daughter, sister and wife of REO Motor Car/Diamond-Reo Truck, Inc employees, talks about the company and her life in a REO workers family in Lansing, MI. Alspaugh tells of her father bringing home his "piece count pay slips" so that she could tally his earnings, of going to the REO Clubhouse as a child, listening to the REO Band, and watching the company ball teams. Alspaugh says that her husband died at the plant after forty years on the job and that other workers collected money to give to her and her children. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the "REO Memories" oral history project.
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• Interview date: 1992-02-25
• Duration: 0:36:14
• Interviewee:
  • Alspaugh, Mildred Bays
• Interviewers:
  • Bradley, Shirley J.
  • Fine, Lisa M.

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