Union Representatives Handing out Literature at Ford Rouge Plant, 1937
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The image shows continuing United Auto Workers activity outside the Ford Rouge plant less than three months following the "Battle of the Overpass," in which Ford Motor Company security men beat labor organizers Walter Reuther, Richard Frankensteen, Richard Merriweather, and Ralph Dunham. Men and women hand out special editions of the United Auto Worker UAW newspaper while boys sell Detroit Free Press newspapers.
The image shows continuing United Auto Workers activity outside the Ford Rouge plant less than three months following the "Battle of the Overpass," in which Ford Motor Company security men beat labor organizers Walter Reuther, Richard Frankensteen, Richard Merriweather, and Ralph Dunham. Men and women hand out special editions of the United Auto Worker UAW newspaper while boys sell Detroit Free Press newspapers.
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
11 August 1937
Subject Date
11 August 1937
Keywords
United States, Michigan, Dearborn
Demonstrations (Presentation events)
Ford Motor Company. Rouge River Plant
International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.833.P.69368
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Linen (Material)
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 7.75 in
Width: 11.125 in
Inscriptions
Inscribed by photographer in image, lower right corner: 69368
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