Child of the Sit-Downs_ The Revolutionary Life of Genora Dollinger - Carlton Jackson [124]
15. She did vote, at least from time to time, for the Peace and Freedom Party, which, among other things, wanted “a socialist economy, one where industries, financial institutions, and natural resources are owned by the people as a whole and democratically managed by the people who work in them and use them.” California Peace and Freedom Party, “What Positions Does the Peace and Freedom Party Take1” California Peace and Freedom Party, www.peaceandfreedom.org/what_is.htm.
16. Genora Dollinger, “Weekly Minder,” notebook, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
17. Henry A. Waxman to Genora Dollinger, n.d., Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
18. Genora Dollinger, notebook, Feb. 1986, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles. She was apparently a notary public, because she speaks frequently in this notebook about various individuals coming to her house at Queen Anne Place to get papers notarized.
19. Ibid., Mar. 14, 1986, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
20. Ibid., Apr. 20, 1986, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
21. Ibid., May 4, 1986, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
22. Ibid., Mar., 27, 1986, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
23. Genora to Larry Jones, May 8, 1985, Dollinger Collection, box 2, folders 33–36, Reuther Library.
24. Genora Dollinger, “Hail to the Red Berets of 1985,” Searchlight, Feb. 6, 1986, 17.
25. Sol Dollinger, interview with the author, Oct. 31, 1997.
26. Genora Dollinger, speech to UAW-GM on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1937 sit-down strike, Aug. 2, 1986, Dollinger Collection, box 3, folder 33, Reuther Library.
27. Sol Dollinger, interview with the author, Oct. 31, 1997.
28. Henry Kraus to Larry Jones, Dec. 11, 1986, Dollinger Collection, box 2, folders 33–36, Reuther Library. Also in the Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
29. Genora Dollinger, “Thumb-Nail Sketch of Communist Party Leaders in 1937—Flint,” unpublished paper, Mar. 8, 1994, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
30. Sol says of this point, “Of course Genora’s friends knew what she thought of Kraus but his book was sold in large numbers wherever the Cpers (Communist Party) in the union could influence sales in the country.” Sol Dollinger, e-mail to the author, Nov. 5, 2000.
31. Kraus, The Many and the Few, 234–41. Kraus’s book could be evaluated as having been written and published in the midst of the 1947 fight for control of the UAW and as a factional document designed to celebrate the role of Communists and their allies and denigrate that of the SP and the Reutherites.
32. Genora to Fania [?], Sept. 28, 1986, Dollinger Collection, box 2, folder 46, Reuther Library.
33. Sol Dollinger, e-mail to the author, Nov. 5, 2000.
34. Sol Dollinger disagrees with the author on the word unfortunate. Genora, he says, had been on a program in Detroit ten years earlier where Kraus was supposed to speak. He was a no-show and thus “deprived Genora the opportunity of making the historical correction [in person] of the record for another decade.”
35. Genora to Don and Sylvia Dotzert, Sept. 7, 1987, Dotzert Collection, Tecumseh, Ontario.
36. Sol Dollinger to the author, Nov. 12, 1997.
37. Genora Dollinger, diary entry, ca. 1988, Dollinger Collection, Los Angeles.
38. Sol and Genora to Don and Sylvia Dotzert, Dec. 1988, Dotzert Collection, Tecumseh, Ontario.
39. Genora to Don and Sylvia Dotzert, Oct. 29, 1988.
40. Ibid.
41. Genora to Don and Sylvia Dotzert, Oct. 29, 1988, Dotzert Collection, Tecumseh, Ontario. After returning from Russia, Genora saw an array of physicians once a week. Her cardiologist tried to reactivate one segment of her heart by drug therapy. Her prescription bill ran to $250 a month and the state-of-the art equipment her doctors used ranged from $159 to $219 for each visit. “Thank the gods,” she proclaimed, “we have private insurance covering the latter.” She stored her wheelchair in the family garage and refused to use it until shortly before her death in 1995.
42. Michael Parks, “After 60 Years, Soviets Air New View