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a time she was on staff at the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.63 Travis’s father was Bob Travis, an active militant in the Communist Party who had led the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1937, which was pivotal in organizing the auto industry and gave incredible momentum to the newly founded CIO.64 “I grew up with my mother,” Travis recalls. “She was more of a New Deal Democrat, although she was a genius and critical of everything, and she had a good sense of humor and was crazy.”65 She embraced her mother’s opposition to racism, but she also retained her father’s commitment to the industrial working class. The militant struggles at the grassroots that characterized the Flint strike and other early CIO efforts were a major influence on the initial workplace organizing of STO in the early seventies.

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      Over the course of the next fifteen or more years, STO would go through innumerable changes in membership; only Hamerquist, Ignatin, Travis,

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