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- View of C & O Railroad converted gondolas used for hauling steel, inside a factory or warehouse.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- An oral history from Seward H. Van Ness, who retired as Production Manager at the General Motors Oldsmobile Division in 1980, and had a long career in steel forging and the automotive industry. He was interviewed by James Walkinshaw on January 20, 1989, at an unidentified location. A transcript for this recording has not been completed.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Voices of Lansing Oral Histories
- Description:
- "Any little Tot" can use the Woodland Spring. It gives the rural or village school a water supply equal to the City. It is the greatest "God Send" ever offered the rural school. Why not be progressive in your school and have one. Price is within your reach."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Notes:
- View of C & O Railroad converted gondola used for hauling steel, outside a factory or warehouse.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- In this installment of "Foreign report" Dr. Willis Dunbar profiles Arab perspectives on the Israeli settlement of Palestine. The segment includes interviews conducted by Tim Elliott with the Governor of Bethlehem, a district officer in Jerusalem, and a member of the Transjordanian Parliament about conditions in the Arabic refugee camps and American policies in Israel. In the middle of the program, Don Martin reports on the 1952 Steel Strike and other national issues.
- Date Issued:
- 1952-05-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poster shows image of people protesting in front of a U.S. Steel plant. One is holding a sign that reads "Fight racism - ally with workers, SDS." Text is above image.
- Date Issued:
- 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Radicalism Posters Collection
- 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:
- 1946-05-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Group of men run from what appears to be tear gas during strike against the Republic Steel Company's Newton facility to unionize the plant in 1937. "The first violence in the strike came when a SWOC union leader was assaulted in Monroe's post office by a mob and by deputized special police that had been created by the City, the special deputized police left the City Commission offices and marched toward Newton Steel, at this point in time, with the possibility of violence increasing, Michigan Governor Frank Murphy unsuccessfully attempted to mediate the strike by telephone, making calls to strike leaders, City officials, and Newton officials, Chief Fischer ordered the strikers to open their picket lines, strikers refused and apparently company police lobbed a tear gas bomb from behind the picket lines, a melee ensued and the special deputized police launched tear gas canisters at the strikers, cars were overturned and dumped into the River Raisin, the strikers were outnumbered and out equipped, they ran and special deputized police chased and beat them, during the riot, eleven people were injured, within one-week after the violent picket line clash, Newton Steel was operating again at full capacity," from Historic Monroe website.
- 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:
- 1937-06-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- 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:
- 1946-05-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Group of men run from what appears to be tear gas during strike against the Republic Steel Company's Newton facility to unionize the plant in 1937. "The first violence in the strike came when a SWOC union leader was assaulted in Monroe's post office by a mob and by deputized special police that had been created by the City, the special deputized police left the City Commission offices and marched toward Newton Steel, at this point in time, with the possibility of violence increasing, Michigan Governor Frank Murphy unsuccessfully attempted to mediate the strike by telephone, making calls to strike leaders, City officials, and Newton officials, Chief Fischer ordered the strikers to open their picket lines, strikers refused and apparently company police lobbed a tear gas bomb from behind the picket lines, a melee ensued and the special deputized police launched tear gas canisters at the strikers, cars were overturned and dumped into the River Raisin, the strikers were outnumbered and out equipped, they ran and special deputized police chased and beat them, during the riot, eleven people were injured, within one-week after the violent picket line clash, Newton Steel was operating again at full capacity," from Historic Monroe website.
- 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:
- 1937-06-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
