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A fact from Shelton Tappes appeared on Wikipedia's
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Did you know... that the
UAW's 1941 union contract with the
Ford Motor Company included a then-unique antidiscrimination clause negotiated by Black foundryman Shelton Tappes?
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... that Shelton Tappes compared his work on
discrimination claims for the
UAW to a fire station, saying "when the bell rings, we run to put out the fire"? Source: Korstad, Robert; Lichtenstein, Nelson (1988) doi:10.2307/1901530 " 'We are a fire station' admitted Tappes, who served in the department during the 1950s and 1960s, 'and when the bell rings we run to put out the fire.'
ALT1: ... that the
UAW's 1941 union contract with the
Ford Motor Company included a then-unique antidiscrimination clause negotiated by Black foundryman Shelton Tappes? Source: Lichtenstein, Nelson (2013). A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics, and Labor p 116 "Foundryman Shelton Tappes.. helped negotiate a then unique antidiscrimination clause into the first UAW-Ford contract. Bates,2012, p. 255 "the antidiscrimination clause, was the handiwork of Shelton Tappes"
The article is new enough (nominated within 6 days of creation), long enough (3557 characters). Well sourced (including university press and academic journals) though there are actually probably too many direct quotes in the footnotes (!) which probably should be pared down at some point. Earwig says copyvio unlikely and spotcheck with one of the Google Books appears to suggest there isn't a problem. QPQ is done. Both hooks check out, except the fact that Shelton Tappes was a foundryman doesn't appear in the main article body, only in the footnotes. @
HouseOfChange: Could you please fix that? (This is the problem when you overinvest in the footnotes; it's easy to forget that there are important points worth calling out in the article itself.)
Cielquiparle (
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05:58, 19 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the heads up, @
Cielquiparle:; I believe I have fixed this by adding more about Tappes working in the giant (60 acre) foundry at the River Rouge plant.
22:58, 20 March 2024 (UTC)reply