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The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against GM, 1936-37 Even those workers who were not on strike and not in the union let it be known, by their presence at demonstrations and picket lines, that their sympathies were with the sit-downers. For 44 days, from December 30, 1936 to February 11, 1937, the GM workers fought the corporation in a great sit-down struggle, centered in Flint, to test whether a union could or could not exist in General Motors.. The Flint strike was preceded by a fresh wave of unionization, born of desperate conditions, that swept through the masses of working people. www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~rgibson/flintstrike.html   (18083 words)

Flint Sit-Down Strike (1936-1937) As Wyndham the UAW officer put in charge of organizing campaign in Flint recalled when he Flint in 1936 he received a telephone call within few minutes of checking into his hotel an anonymous caller telling him to get where he came from if he didn’t to be carried out in a wooden Organizing Flint was a difficult and dangerous GM controlled city politics in Flint and a close eye on outsiders. The union planned to strike plants after the New Year when Frank Murphy would become Governor of Michigan. www.freeglossary.com /Flint_Sit-Down_Strike_(1936-1937)   (950 words)

The historic 1936-37 Flint auto plant strikes The Flint sit-down strike began the evening of Dec. 30, 1936, when the night shift stopped the loading of dies being shipped by the company to places where unionism was weaker. Walter Reuther, future president of the UAW, was one of the leaders of the Flint strikes. On Jan. 3, 1937, The Detroit News reported that Knudsen said: "A meeting between the management and the union was scheduled for Monday, Jan. 4, but on Wednesday, before that meeting could take place, the second shift sat down and caused the plant to close, throwing out of work 7,000 men. info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=115&category=business   (2298 words)

The Flint Sit-Down Strike Audio Gallery The strike was settled on February 11, 1937. Working on the line at General Motors in Flint was a job many men needed desperately in the 1930's, but it was also tremendously difficult. Terrible working conditions, combined with unfair and devious payroll practices, made the auto plants of Depression-era Flint into ripe locations for union organization...(more>>) www.historicalvoices.org /flint   (186 words)

Mike Westfall Papers Blue Collar grassroots voices Michael Moore Victor Reuther Ralph Nader United Auto Workers General Motors Universities World respected Victor Ruther, who also worked with Westfall, was a leader in the historic 1937 sit down strike in Flint and one of the founders of the U.A.W. said Westfall was a leader like others should be and he valued Westfall as a friend. These hard working concerned American assembly line workers from Flint were the...“only”..Major collective grass roots worker voice in our country sounding a national alarm as to the impending social and economic consequences resulting from these changes. The work started in Flint and remained based in Flint however the work and ideas generated from these activists quickly spread all over the country. westfallmike.tripod.com   (873 words)

Uhhuh .com, born in genesee county, uaw proud , celebrating the flint sitdown strike of 1936 -1937 which made gm give the autoworkers a binding contract for the first time, thus changing labor history, and making the UAW into the world's strongest union. Uhhuh.com, born in genesee county, uaw proud, celebrating the flint sitdown strike of 1936 -1937 which made gm give the autoworkers a binding contract for the first time, thus changing labor history, and making the UAW into the world's strongest union. How when you drive down South Saginaw Street, Fisher 1 is torn down, and I can only picture in my mind the tear gas, broken windows, and parade as the Sit-downers marched victoriously out of the factory. D___, as I viewed you at your wake that was held in your honor at UAW Local 599, from your obituary I learned, around 1926, while working at the Buick Foundry, The Union talk began. www.angelfire.com /mi/uhhuhdotcom   (3790 words)

Flint Strike: Lest We Forget An anonymous sit-downer, writing in his strike diary, describes the seizure of the Fisher II plant on December 30, 1936 at 6:45 a.m. Writers in Fortune Magazine in Nov. 1937 were compelled to admit, "Out of all the sensational news of the auto strike, the seizing of Chevy IV was the high point. The strike wave of the 1930's made it possible, for the first time to have industry-wide, rather than craft unions in the United States. www.zmag.org /Bulletins/pfli.htm   (2999 words)

Striking Flint We couldn't have women sitting down in the plants because the newspapers were antagonizing the wives at home by saying that women were sleeping over in the plant. One meeting after another, the contract was turned down, primarily because of these popular committee men who had never before taken a position on the floor. After the strike, a Senate investigating committee found that in one department of A.C. alone, the girls had all been forced to go to the county hospital and be treated for venereal disease traced to one foreman. www.marxists.org /history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/genora.htm   (17041 words)

Sit-Down Strike The sit-down strike of 1936-1937 in Flint, Michigan, lasted only 44 days, but its impact would alter the course of the industrial labor movement forever. Along with audiotape interview of Robert Keith, one of the strikers, with an accompanying transcript of the interview, the project also includes a short history of the strike, historic photographs of the strike and contemporary portraits of the strikers, and the exhibition catalog entitled: "The Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937: Witnesses and Warriors." In accompanying text block, each sit-downer recounts a part of the story of this pivotal event in labor and Michigan history. www.loc.gov /bicentennial/propage/MI/mi-09_h_kildee2.html   (197 words)

The Flint Sit-down Strike - January 2003 Solidarity The 44-day Flint Sit-down Strike that ended Feb. 11, 1937, with a first UAW contract with General Motors was the most pivotal strike in early UAW history. In mid-November 1936, workers at Bendix in South Bend, Ind., established the sit-down strike, though illegal, as a tactic where workers occupied the workplace. GM ran Flint, and the company had union families threatened with eviction, credit denied at stores, wives pressured into writing letters claiming they were ill to their husbands in the plants, and more. www.uaw.org /solidarity/03/0103/feature07.html   (535 words)

flint sit down strike 1936 1937 Dictionary Definition of flint sit down strike 1936 1937 Encyclopedia Entry for flint sit down strike 1936 1937 www.yourencyclopedia.net /flint_sit_down_strike__1936_1937_.html   (76 words)

Not Automatic by Sol Dollinger and Genora Johnson Dollinger (1913-1995) played a leading role in organizing women during the Flint sit-down strike of 1936-1937. The sequence involving Genora Johnson Dollinger, the heroine of the 1937 sit-down strike, is deeply moving and inspiring.” Her actions were the subject of two award-winning documentaries, The Great Sit-Down Strike and With Babies and Banners. www.monthlyreview.org /notauto.htm   (354 words)

Walter P. Reuther library/personal collections The Flint Sitdown began on December 30, 1936 when UAW leaders decided to call a strike against GM. On February 11, 1937, several hundred members of the United Automobile Workers Union (UAW) emerged from three General Motors (GM) factories in Flint, Michigan to the sounds of cheering crowd. The goal of the strike was simple: GM recognition of the UAW. www.reuther.wayne.edu /exhibits/sitdown.html   (302 words)

Flint Sitdown Strike at General Motors' Fisher Body plant, in Flint, Michigan in 1937. Strikers are shown guarding the windows at General Motors' Fisher Body plant CLICK ON BORDERED IMAGES BELOW FOR LARGE FORMAT bss.sfsu.edu /tygiel/Hist427/1930sphotos/flintsitdownstrike.htm   (31 words)

Sit-Down Strike Along with audiotape interview of Robert Keith, one of the strikers, with an accompanying transcript of the interview, the project also includes a short history of the strike, historic photographs of the strike and contemporary portraits of the strikers, and the exhibition catalog entitled: "The Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937: Witnesses and Warriors." The sit-down strike of 1936-1937 in Flint, Michigan, lasted only 44 days, but its impact would alter the course of the industrial labor movement forever. In accompanying text block, each sit-downer recounts a part of the story of this pivotal event in labor and Michigan history. www.loc.gov /bicentennial/propage/MI/mi-09_h_kildee2.html   (197 words)

Flint Sit-Down Strike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Flint Sit-Down Strike changed the United Automobile Workers from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major union and led to the unionization of the United States automobile industry. As the UAW studied its target it discovered that GM had only two factories that produced the dies from which car body components were stamped: one in Flint that produced the parts for Buicks, Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles and another in Cleveland that produced Chevrolet parts. In a conventional strike the union takes its members outside the plant and attempts to prevent the employer from operating by discouraging other employees from entering. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flint_Sit-Down_Strike_(1936-1937)   (874 words)

MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Sit-down Strike In 1937, autoworkers in Flint, Michigan had a sit-down strike, shown here, at the Chevrolet Plant. Sit-down strikes were used often in the 1930s by workers in the steel, automobile, and rubber industries. Sit-down strikes effectively paralyzed businesses because, although employees showed up at work, they would not carry out their daily tasks. encarta.msn.com /media_461531366/Sit-down_Strike.html   (75 words)

"This Is the Pressure That They Used": Genora Dollinger Recalls the Flint Sit-Down Strike This is especially true in the case of a sit-down strike like the legendary sit-down strike at Flint, Michigan, in 1936, when the strikers occupied the GM plants. And he went down to see them, and they said, “Until you get that communist daughter of yours out of your apartment building, we’re not going to—” This was just pressure, when I stop to think about it. Strikes affect an entire community, and in the end they need that community’s support to succeed. historymatters.gmu.edu /d/135   (592 words)

Striking Flint We couldn't have women sitting down in the plants because the newspapers were antagonizing the wives at home by saying that women were sleeping over in the plant. One meeting after another, the contract was turned down, primarily because of these popular committee men who had never before taken a position on the floor. After the strike, a Senate investigating committee found that in one department of A.C. alone, the girls had all been forced to go to the county hospital and be treated for venereal disease traced to one foreman. www.marxists.org /history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/genora.htm   (17041 words)

The Flint Sit-Down Strike Audio Gallery The strike was settled on February 11, 1937. The UAW did not win all of its demands, but gained an agreement from General Motors to recognize the union in the struck plants and to allow the union exclusive rights for six months to organize in the other plants. Others took up picket and food-gathering activities on the outside... www.historicalvoices.org /flint   (186 words)

Flint Sit-Down Strike - The Strike Judge Black, for instance, handed down an injunction against the strikers even though his holding of over $200,000 in GM stock constituted a massive conflict of interest; Judge Gadola once said from the bench that the UAW would be required to compensate GM fully for all of its lost sales during the strike. For those in Flint who opposed the strike or who were unsure what to think about it, there were plenty of influences in town to move the ambivalent towards hostility, and the hostile towards violent action. Churches, for the most part, were piously silent or cautionary on the topic of the strike, and the judges who rendered decisions on the legality of the strike were preemptively opposed to it. www.historicalvoices.org /flint/strike.php   (1318 words)

Progressive Labor Party pamphlet, 'The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against GM, 1936-37' (1965 edition) Even those workers who were not on strike and not in the union let it be known, by their presence at demonstrations and picket lines, that their sympathies were with the sit-downers. The Flint strike was preceded by a fresh wave of unionization, born of desperate conditions, that swept through the masses of working people. A unanimous vote at a plant mass meeting decided the sit-down would be ended only as a part of a national settlement. www.plp.org /pamphlets/flintstrike.html   (18578 words)

the Flint Sit-Down Strike Within the Flint community, there were numerous responses (Community Response [text]) to the strike. www.matrix.msu.edu /~webdev/amy_grant/response.html   (14 words)

Walter P. Reuther library/personal collections The Flint Sitdown began on December 30, 1936 when UAW leaders decided to call a strike against GM. The goal of the strike was simple: GM recognition of the UAW. On August 26, 1935, auto workers organized the UAW to bargain for better wages and working conditions. www.reuther.wayne.edu /exhibits/sitdown.html   (302 words)

Gr Depression Sit-down Strike at Flint: Automobile Workers Organize a The sit-down strike was a new and daring tactic that gained one historian called "the sit down community." Each plant www.garyrutledge.com /AmHistory/NotesFr1865/great_depression.htm   (632 words)

the Flint Sit-Down Strike These conditions contributed to high turn over rates (GM and Turnover Rates [audio]) and ultimately, a surprising Sit-Down Strike (General Public Caught by Surprise [audio].) www.matrix.msu.edu /~webdev/amy_grant/workingconditions.html   (35 words)

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