Oral History Interview with Gene Freeland, October 12, 1980 Page: 5
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consists of two other companies, Texas Electric in Fort
Worth and Texas Power and Light, which has the rest of the
rural areas and the numerous county towns in Dallas and
Tarrant Counties. The wage rates in Fort Worth are aboutfive to ten dollars more per month than the union rates
in Dallas. If we have wage adjustments in key jobs in
the Dallas Power and Light Company, they give those same
adjustments to Texas Electric. That way, they can tell
the employees at Texas Electric, "Look, they have a union,
and you make more money than they do." So they keep out
the union, but the pressure of the union benefits the em-
ployees there. The pressure of us organizing these other
companies requires Dallas Power and Light to keep us up
to the national average in wages, rates, and benefits
paid by companies the size of Dallas Power and Light. It's
a synergistic thing; it serves them when they use it right--
and they do--and it serves the union very well.
How long did you stay as business manager?
Three years, until July of 1965. My predecessor, Allan
Maley, was then selected to become the first director of
what was then called the "War on Poverty" and is now the
Dallas County Community Action Agency. He was notified
of that in June, and I was selected to take his place
for a six-month interim, giving him a six-month leave
of absence. Then the funding came on October 1, 1965,King:
Freeland:
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King, Amelia Kay & Freeland, Gene. Oral History Interview with Gene Freeland, October 12, 1980, book, October 12, 1980; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2085622/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.