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Labor Militancy and the CIO
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Monday, November 14
Wagner Act > United Automobile Workers poster addressing Ford workers
Labor in the 1930s > Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, 1936
CIO > AFL and CIO
AFL
CIO
• skilled workers only
• by craft
• anti-immigrant
• native-born white male workers only
• all workers, including semi-skilled
(majority)
• by industry
• actively recruited immigrants, women, and
nonwhites
CIO > A CIO poster quoting FDR
CIO > The rise in union membership
CIO > Strike patterns
Strikes > Sit-down strike in Flint, MI
Strikes > Sit-down strike in Flint, MI
Strikes > UAW billboard damaged by fire, Detroit
Strikes > UAW organizers Walter Reuther and Richard Frankensteen pose for
press photographers, River Rouge Plant, May 26, 1937
Strikes > They were approached by Ford Service Department men
Strikes > Ford men attacked
Strikes > Reuther and Frankensteen immediately after the incident
Strikes > Women’s sit-down strike in a Goody Nut Shop, 1937
Strikes > Sit-down strike cartoon, New York World-Telegram, March 1937
Strikes > CIO photomagazine, Photo-History, July 1937
Backlash > Memorial Day Massacre, May 29, 1937
Backlash > The Hilo Massacre, August 1, 1938