Strikes; Cadillac Motor & Fleetwood; Detroit

Description:
Group of striking auto workers smile and wave with banners behind them reading, "We have just begun to fight" and "Make Detroit a Union Town." "The GM sit-down strike moved into Detroit on the morning of January 8, when Walter Reuther, president of the west side local called a Cadillac sit-down that affected thirty-eight hundred workers, four days later about ninety of the more than thirteen hundered workers at Fleetwood which made the bodies for Cadillac sat down at their jobs and forced the plant's closing," from Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937, by Sidney Fine.
Notes:
Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
Date Issued:
1937-01-16T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
Collection:
Virtual Motor City
Place:
Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, and Detroit
Subject Topic:
Labor union members, Strikes and lockouts, Automobile industry, and Banners
Format:
photographs
Rights:
Copyright Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University
URL:
http://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc30016_5