Strikes; Chevrolet Motor Car Company; Flint. -Strikers Chevrolet Plant #4 Getting Food. -Under Guard of Militia

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Description:

Smoke rises in background as man on left appears to be throwing something and other men, some holding sticks stand off to right, during the Flint sit-down strike against General Motors at the Fisher Body Plant. "Among the plants closed by a sit-down strike was Fisher No. 2, also in Flint, the company responded by turning off the heat, and the cold winter caused the strikers there to compare themselves to George Washington and his men at Valley Forge, then, on Jan. 11, 1937, the police tried to stop food delivery, a riot ensued, "The rioting at Flint resulted in injury to 16 strikers and spectators and 11 officers," The Detroit News reported, the condition of one striker was reported to be critical, most of the strikers were injured by buckshot fired from riot guns by the Flint police, the officers were injured principally by missiles thrown from the plant by the stay-in strikers," from The historic 1936-37 Flint auto plant strikes, by Vivian M. Baulch and Patricia Zacharias / The Detroit News, June 23, 1997.

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Date Issued:

1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library

Collection:

Virtual Motor City

Subject Topic:

Men, Truncheons, and Smoke

Format:

photographs

Rights:

Copyright Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

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http://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc77468_1