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ce *, RE: COUNTERORIENIATION WEEK It is, when we went down th:re, I imagine we, you know, had assumptions that we could really do some kind of political work over the period of a couple of months, that something really could be done. Because this was the first time I had ever been involved in anything like this and the same is true for several other people in the project. We thought, you know, we really could get some stuff together. But I mean, it was very valuable, but it was valuable to us as a personal learning experience and finding out about working conditions 1 about the way that companies operated, the wiy that workers regarded the places in which they work, they way they regarded the economic systen, the way they interpret their whole lives, you know, and the way they regard their situation. no oe GE RABE RS TT ER AES eS a tot er 6 OANA abt Aa PE ee ag + And of course, living close together in Charlotte, we learned to exchange experiences anid compare information, and yeu know, this made th’ thing a collective experience for us as well as an individual learning experience. And it was, we found it to be a very valuable thing. So, MARTHA, now will relate some of her observations about her job to us. (The following speech was made by MARTHA SMITH.) Well I found it very, very exciting. Well, I'll just tell you a little bit about the place wher: I worked. It was a sandwich factory, where they make sandwiches and doughnuts and all of, this kind of foods. And the conditions were very bad. We worked about 55 hours a week and that was less than people in the Other departments. Most of them were women and I'll tell you a little bit later about how (unintelligible) to get maximum production. Of course, all their supervisors were men, white men. And I'd say we were about 50-50 black-white. Really, I'd do anything I can (next few words unintelligible) observations of how something worked. And there were some really interesting things about the way they worked at this company in particular, and I'm sure most 38 a Grn atin Ee ETN FT FINO | mre BY yee ee wae we te ee es ‘ , . . coe et iy > aunt tt pale Ee PRE TR