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job. After getting through the picket line, we both rushed inside the building to fill out the application, we were hired immediately and told to report to work the next day. Most of the workers strike had been employed there for years, and they refused to give their jobs up to any outsider without making a noise. They soon learned that the company was not giving over to their demands, and started production without their help I soon started looking for a rental house for my wife and children. We did find a mobile home to rent outside of town near the air bases, about ten miles or more from my job. My wife who was also looking for a job and was hired at a factory, putting auto seat parts together, something she enjoyed doing. My job was to load and unload racks filled with small and large pieces of chrome for auto parts now that my wife was working a job, we were able to pay my aunt to baby-sit, and pay rent and buy things needed for the mobile home. The children were enjoying themselves things were really looking up in 1977.
1978 was a very tough year, and times were about to get even harder, on January 6, 1978, I had a job-related injury from the kind of work I was told to do. While performing this work daily, my wrist started giving out the pains continued to worsen it all started on the anodizing production line. There was only one person working in that department besides myself, and we both were assigned to these racks. One pulled while the other unloaded, I was the person to unload and the other person pulled.Before the day was over, I loaded and unloaded hundreds and hundreds of these parts each day. All the parts were chrome that I handled and stacked and restacked in a large metal basket, each one of them was in different sizes and shapes, some long and some short. My hands started aching I didn’t know that a small lump had grown on my right wrist.
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