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UAW-CIO Union Pickets At Clinton Machine Co. Labor Strike, August 1947

UAW-CIO Union Pickets At Clinton Machine Co. Labor Strike, August 1947 image
Year:
1947
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, August 14, 1947
Caption:
About 400 UAW-CIO pickets paraded in front of the strike-torn Clinton Machine Co. early this morning, bearing American flags and union banners, while about 125 non-striking workers ate their breakfasts inside the plant gates undisturbed except for occasional heckling shouts.

Carl Forcher Attempts To Cross UAW-CIO Union Picket Line At Clinton Machine Co. Labor Strike, August 1947

Carl Forcher Attempts To Cross UAW-CIO Union Picket Line At Clinton Machine Co. Labor Strike, August 1947 image
Year:
1947
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, August 14, 1947
Caption:
But when Carl Forcher, a company employee, attempted to cross the picket line into the plant, the orderly file became an angry mob, threatening violence until state troopers intervened to protect him. Forcher finally abandoned his efforts to enter the plant.

Carpenters Labor Union Votes For Strike, September 1949

Carpenters Labor Union Votes For Strike, September 1949 image
Year:
1949
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 17, 1949
Caption:
By a vote of 61 to 37, members of the AFL carpenters local 512 voted last night to strike against the Ann Arbor General Contractors Association. Union and contractor representatives check the voting lists in the picture above while two carpenters (right) receive instructions from John D. Bagley, state labor mediator. To the left (at the table) are Armand P. Hewett of 1103 W. Madison St. (back to camera), William Brown of Dexter, and William E. Bowline of Route 6, Ann Arbor.
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There Went The Neighborhood - Audio Interview: Diana McKnight-Morton

Diana McKnight-Morton attended Jones School as an elementary student in the 1950s. She remembers growing up in a multi-racial, industrial neighborhood that resisted urban renewal. Her father, Robert Thompson, ran DeLong’s Bar-B-Q Pit on Detroit Street for 38 years.

More interviews are available in the There Went The Neighborhood Interview Archive.