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Songs of the UAW

It's the UAW All the Way

It's the UAW All the Way Album and Sing Along Inserts

It's the UAW All the Way (Full)

t’s the UAW All the Way

It’s the UAW All the Way features Joe Lisi and his guitar and was produced by UAW Productions Inc.

Side One:
  1. UAW ALL THE WAY
  2. THE MILL WAS MADE OF MARBLE
  3. UNION MAID
  4. WE’VE GOTTA FIGHT POLLUTION NOW
Side Two:
  1. ROLL THE UNION ON
  2. HEART OF A MAN SHOWING THROUGH
  3. CRUSADE FOR SAFETY
  4. WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED
  5. SOLIDARITY FOREVER

JOE LISI SAYS:

1. In 1950 I became affiliated with the UAW Amalgamated Local 174 in Detroit thru the employment at the National Cold Forging Company in Dearborn, Michigan.

2. Transferred my union membership to the Mack Local 824 in New Brunswick, N.J.

3. Represented Local 824 in my first UAW Summer School at Pottstown, Penna. In August of 1951. This was the first contract I had in applying my voice and my guitar to the now famous labor songs.

4. After applying my successes in the UAW at the local· union level, I was sought out by Rutgers University to conduct programs for their Summer Schools. On leave of absence from the Mack plant, I conducted recreation programs at the University for the years of 1951; 1952; 1953; and 1954; besides conducting schools for the UAW in Region 9-A at Storrs, Connecticut; in Region 9 at Pottstown, Pa; and Region 8 in the Carolinas.

5. In 1955 while conducting the UAW and Rutgers Summer School programs an Education Director of the UAW attended one of the school sessions and observed the program that I had planned and conducted. Since I was a UAW member he asked me if I would go to Michigan to conduct similar programs at seven weeks of UAW Summer School there. After the Rutgers -Schools I went to Michigan to conduct the program thus exposing myself to seven regional directors. With the exposure of those seven directors and also the three in the Eastern part of the country, I was appointed to National UAW Recreation Department Staff.

6. While working as an International Representative of the UAW I was assigned to many diversified programs:

  1. Regional Summer Schools
    1. Regions 1, 1-A, 1-8, 1-C, 1-D, 1-E, All these schools are located in Michigan
    2. Region 2 Cleveland, Ohio
    3. Region 2-A Columbus, Ohio
    4. Region 4 Illinois
    5. Region 5 St. Louis and the Southwest
    6. Region 6 California
    7. Canadian Region - Port Elgin, Canada
    8. Region 8 Carolinas
    9. Region 9 New Jersey, New York, and Penna.
    10. Region 9-A Storrs, Conn.
  2. At these summer schools, of the UAW, besides playing the guitar and singing, directing variety shows, I arranged and continue to arrange recreation programs and also teach workshops on Recreation and Conservation.
  3. Played the guitar and sang during the political campaigns of Adlai Stevenson; Estes Kefaufer; John F. Kennedy; Lyndon B. Johnson; Averill Harriman; and Robert Wagner of New York City.
  4. Played my guitar and sang to the Labor Section of the National Safety Council in Chicago, Ill. Labor and Safety songs were sung.
  5. Besides conducting the above programs, I have participated in the field of charity.
  6. Veterans Hospitals
  7. Other Hospitals
  8. Church Charities
  9. Fire Companies
  10. Fraternal Organizations
  11. Heart Fund
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