User:HouseOfChange/sandbox


 * This is where I keep stuff I am working on. Sometimes I archive stuff I'm not working on now. Here are all my user sub-pages; here is my sandbox archive.


 * Making it easy: here is a very simple template for creating references for an article.

Shelton Tappes
(Wikidata Q55806675)

Shelton Tappes (March 27, 1911–April 19, 1991) was an American labor organizer and civil rights activist, known for his role in drafting and negotiating the anti-discrimination clause included in the first contract (May, 1941) between Ford Motor Company and the United Auto Workers (UAW.)

Personal life
Shelton Tappes was born March 27, 1911 in Omaha, Nebraska. After finishing high school, he attended the University of Nebraska for one semester, before moving to Detroit with his family.

His wife Louise Tappes was also politically active; the activist Women’s Public Affairs Committee of 1000 (WPAC) she co-founded in 1964 included Rosa Parks among its members.

Career
He began working for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit in 1928, first at their Briggs plant and later at the River Rouge plant. In 1932, Tappes took part in the Ford Hunger March, where unemployed auto workers tried to present a petition to Henry Ford but were dispersed by gunfire from police and Ford's security team; five marchers died from their wounds.

From 1937 on, Tappes joined efforts by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) to unionize Black workers in the Rouge plant for the newly formed United Automobile Workers (UAW). These efforts struggled against skepticism in the middle-class Black community of Detroit. Tappes spoke out for the CIO as a "mystery voice" on local radio, and worked with the local chapter of the National Negro Congress to encourage Black leaders to support Ford workers demanding better treatment.

The UAW had a hard time recruiting Black workers at Ford Motor Company (FMC), partly because older community members felt loyalty to Henry Ford, who had hired and paid them well at a time when other auto companies would not. Furthermore, many feared that Black workers were being asked to risk their jobs but would be "pushed aside and ignored" once the union had secured their votes.

After years of often-violent opposition from Ford, on May 21, 1941 FMC employees including most Black workers voted decisively to join the UAW-CIO.

When the UAW negotiated its first contract with Ford Motor Company, Tappes was a member of the union negotiating team. Clause #87 of that first contract was an anti-discrimination clause that has been described as "important," "then unique," and "the handiwork of Shelton Tappes" : "The provisions of this contract shall apply to all employees covered by this agreement, without discrimination on account of race, color, national origin, sex, or creed."

The resulting first Ford-UAW contract, signed on June 20, 1941, was "considered a model and the most liberal of its day." During the 1940s, along with George Crockett and others, Tappes organized a caucus of local activists who agitated for a more prominent role in the labor movement for black leaders; the caucus is also credited with pressing white union leaders to give greater prominence in their agenda to civil rights issues. In 1944, after serving three terms as recording secretary, he was defeated in an election. Tappes later told the House Un-American Activities Committee that Communist Party activists in the 50,000-member CIO Ford Local 600 union had warned him in 1942 that he would lose their support if he refused to join the party.

The UAW then hired him, first as an "authority on contract interpretation and grievance procedure," and later as an international representative until, in 1976, he retired.

In Praise of Blood drafting improvements
User:HouseOfChange/IPOB Creating draft of improved article in userspace

John Bunker apple detective
I stumbled on so many in-depth articles about him that he clearly passes GNG. It will be interesting to create an article, when I have time. Update 2023, John Bunker has an article now created by somebody else, to which I am adding. HouseOfChange (talk) 15:30, 9 July 2023 (UTC)


 * "Beyond the McIntosh" May 2008 Corby Kummer
 * "Why Your Supermarket Sells Only 5 Kinds of Apples" Rowan Jacobsen [sic] 2013
 * "Apple Whisperer John Bunker Explores Maine for Forgotten Heritage Apple Varieties"
 * Boston Globe, July 4, 2023
 * His book Far from the tree

Costume designers
Costume designers play a big role in the success of TV shows, but aren't in many articles. Look at articles that include info about production to see how it works.

Kirston Mann does The Good Place and previously worked on Parks and Rec. Sources about her include GQ, Fashionista more Fashionista, Yahoo Lifestyle (that last one may be a reprint from Fashionista tho.) and Syfy.

Beth Morgan (costume designer) on Glow does amazing things. She was nominated for a couple of Emmys, according to Variety. Also more stuff about her.

Betsy Faith Heimann has a stub article that could/should be expanded e.g. her influential costumes for Almost Famous.

Ghost moose

 * Definition of ghost moose: 80% hair loss.
 * Nat Geo article
 * PdF Alberta moose
 * White as a Ghost (2004), Google books
 * Review and summary of White as a Ghost (Proposed citation: Edward M. Addison "White as a Ghost, Winter Ticks and Moose," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 43(1), (1 January 2007). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-43.1.150) (Downloaded pdf is named "0090-3558-43.1.150%20(1).pdf")


 * https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/fauna7/fauna5j.htm
 * https://isleroyalewolf.org/sites/default/files/annual-report-pdf/wolf%20moose%20annual%20report%202018_0.pdf
 * https://www.wolf.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/summer2008.pdf


 * Maine's moose are OK tho others are not