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During the Studebaker strike of 1962, Gloyd Richards was involved in an altercation with Studebaker President Sherwood Egbert as Mr. Egbert rightfully attempted to cross a picket line during the critical development time for the Studebaker Avanti. What was Mr. Richards' position within Studebaker-Packard, and what was his ultimate fate with the company ???

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I’m a union guy… however, it’s difficult to understand why the South Bend local would be pushing so hard for increased benefits, when it had to be SO clear at that time that Studebaker Corporation was on such thin ice!

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  On 1/18/2025 at 4:46 PM, mfg said:

I’m a union guy… however, it’s difficult to understand why the South Bend local would be pushing so hard for increased benefits, when it had to be SO clear at that time that Studebaker Corporation was on such thin ice!

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Have to agree, don't think that was the most strategic move on the part of Local 5 at that time...

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I wonder if that’s Sherwood inside the Mercedes?…..I’ve read that he would show up in one occasionally!

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  On 1/18/2025 at 5:32 PM, regnalbob said:

He was a truck driver and was fired.

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Correct on both counts....and discharged for "misappropriation of company property" just a little over a year after the "incident"

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  On 1/19/2025 at 11:04 PM, Dwight FitzSimons said:

So, evidently, he wasn't fired for the altercation?

--Dwight

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No....he somehow managed to survive another year, until he apparently got a case of sticky fingers..

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  On 1/20/2025 at 12:03 AM, mfg said:

Provide evidence of this union man’s “firing” !

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Thats funny coming from a guy who doesn't provide evidence for anything.

Try reading the Lamberti Papers.

 

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  On 1/20/2025 at 12:47 AM, regnalbob said:

Thats funny coming from a guy who doesn't provide evidence for anything.

Try reading the Lamberti Papers.

 

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From the March 11, 1963 weekly staff meeting of Studebaker department heads.....The Lamberti Papers.....replying to mfg

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Egbert, as a former Marine, strikes me as the sort of man that wouldn't want to be seen as being a 'crybaby' by ordering that employee dismissed.  I know nothing of his personality in actual fact- he just looks to me like a real no nonsense type of fellow....

Out of interest, does anybody have any inside info on how Sherwood Egbert rolled?

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  On 1/20/2025 at 3:23 AM, murph the surf said:

From the March 11, 1963 weekly staff meeting of Studebaker department heads.....The Lamberti Papers.....replying to mfg

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Thank you Murph…. Seeing factual documentation is much fairer to the accused than accepting the word of a man  known to be a ‘loose cannon’, seldom backing up his comments.

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Sherwood Egbert definitely had a lot on his mind at the time….. His health, Trying to ‘right’ a sinking ship, Union problems, Etc.

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  On 1/18/2025 at 5:32 PM, regnalbob said:

He was a truck driver and was fired.

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  On 1/18/2025 at 5:46 PM, murph the surf said:

Correct on both counts....and discharged for "misappropriation of company property" just a little over a year after the "incident"

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  On 1/20/2025 at 12:03 AM, mfg said:

Provide evidence of this union man’s “firing” !

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  On 1/20/2025 at 12:47 AM, regnalbob said:

Thats funny coming from a guy who doesn't provide evidence for anything.

Try reading the Lamberti Papers.

 

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  On 1/20/2025 at 5:04 AM, mfg said:

Thank you Murph…. Seeing factual documentation is much fairer to the accused than accepting the word of a man  known to be a ‘loose cannon’, seldom backing up his comments.

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 What is your problem? Murph asked a question and I answered it from the information in the Lamberti Papers.

A question that you were unable to answer.

No need for me to provide any documentation since I did not ask the question.

Why do you find it necessary to make childish comments about me?

 

 

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  On 1/20/2025 at 7:08 PM, regnalbob said:

 

 

 

Why do you find it necessary to make childish comments about me?

 

 

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Because you sometimes behave like a child Bob… and after this do not defame others without producing the evidence ‘up front’!

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That’s all I have to say on this matter.

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