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.

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.