Should have been around in the ‘60s, when the 1945 fluoridation project in G.R. was still producing angry letters to the editor (yes, the old ‘pinko plot to subvert our natural bodily fluids’) and the 1969 installation of Calder’s La Grande Vitesse (thank you, NEA!) stabile was inciting the locals to hurl bricks through organizers’ picture windows because it was – RED.
So it’s no wonder unions were seen as unholy alliances of atheists and anarchist wobblies…but everyone hoped to get a job at the (GM) Fisher Body plant.
(Nothing to do with unions, but a great snapshot of West Michigan hobbits – aka white conservative xians – in the '50s-'60s: TV was the latest tool of the devil, so you didn’t want anyone to know you owned one… The solution? Mount your rooftop antenna in the attic. lol)
