year, End of the Line, his oral
history about the workers,
was published. It received
good reviews.
In the book, Feldman and
co-editor Michael Betzold
survey a diverse group of
employees at the truck plant
and the workers' attitudes
about their families_ their co-
workers, their 50- to 60-hour
work weeks, and their
employer. He interviewed
diehard union men. harassed
women and plenty of disen-
chanted, bone-tired workers.
Feldman still works at the
plant and lately has been
traveling to auto towns like
St. Louis and Cleveland to
promote his book. He has re-
mained politically active: he
helped start a rank-and-file
newsletter at the plant and
the Michigan Committee for
Organizing the Unemployed.
He picketed Ford World head-
quarters alone to protest
forced overtime when other
autoworkers were laid off. He
still lives in Detroit with his
wife and two children, and his
neighborhood group has done
anti-crime activities and
sponsored Devil's Night par-
ties for children. Last year,
he fought Mayor Coleman
Young's attempt to bring
casino gambling to the city.
Feldman sometimes feels a
tension between the need to
question and his social in-
volvement. "Being raised
after the Holocaust," he said,
"if you question anything
Jewish, you're called an anti-
Semite. If you criticize Col-
eman Young, you're called a
racist." And at the truck
plant, he said, some people
think it heretical to criticize
the UAW.
But Feldman is undaunted,
remaining convinced that
"those things that are the
most sacred are what you
really need to evaluate and
reflect upon." ❑
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