Strikes; Murray Body Company

Description:

Young women walk together, smiling, with other workers behind them and the Murray Body factory(?) in background, during strike in Detroit, Michigan. "In the case of the Graham-Paige and Murray Body strikes the strikers initially turned to the Detroit Federation of Labor for aid, rejected, they then asked the Auto Workers Union to help them, the AWU instructed the strikers in the procedures of electing a strike committee and running strike meetings, in the end the strikers voted to accept a compromise proposal and returned to work," from History of the Labor Movement in the United States: The AFL in the Progressive Era, 1910-1913, by Philip S. Foner.

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:

1929-07-11T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library

Collection:

Virtual Motor City

Subject Topic:

Strikes and lockouts, Automobile industry, Young women, and Automobile industry workers

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:vmc74341