Ford Hunger March, 1932
Subject
Subject Source: Reuther Taxonomy
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Kraus Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000112
Abstract
Mr. Kraus was the first editor of the UAW's newspaper The United Auto Worker (later changed to Solidarity). He was active in the early attempts by the UAW (first under the AFL and later under the CIO) to organize the auto industry. Files for the late 1920s and early 1930s cover the attempts by groups, including the Auto Workers Union of the Trade Union Unity League, to organize auto workers, and discuss such events as the Murray Body Strike (1929); the Ford Hunger March (1932); and the Briggs...
Dates:
1926 - 1960; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1944
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Henry Kraus Papers
Joe Brown Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000047
Abstract
A one-time reporter for the Federated Press, Mr. Brown gathered a variety of items for a proposed book on unionism in the auto industry. Clippings, correspondence, handbills, and miscellaneous publications relate to the rise of auto unions during the 1930s and 1940s. Nearly every topic of importance for that time and subject is covered, including sit-downs, drives to organize various plants, and strikes. The scrapbooks contain mostly Detroit newspaper clippings about auto unions.Box...
Dates:
1933 - 1942
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Joe Brown Papers
Mary Van Kleeck Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000573
Abstract
Correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, clippings, and published material of Mary Van Kleeck, director of the Commission on Women's Work and Industrial Studies, and associate director of International Industrial Relations Institute of the Russell Sage Foundation. In addition to Miss Van Kleeck's files concerning her work with the Sage Foundation and the Inter-Professional Association are the papers of Knickerbocker Boyd, an architect interested in the relationship of architects with the...
Dates:
1910 - 1950
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Mary Van Kleeck Papers
Maurice Sugar Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000232
Abstract
Chief counsel for the UAW from 1937 to 1946, Mr. Sugar's career as a labor lawyer began in 1916. The items in this collection pertain to his song, Sit Down, a favorite of the sit-downers of the mid-1930's. Subjects include: UAW legal matters; UAW factionalism; Ford Hunger March; HUAC; radical politics.
Dates:
1907 - 1989
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Maurice Sugar Papers
Robert W. Dunn Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000096
Abstract
Research notes and other material gathered for Dunn's Labor and Automobiles (New York: 1929). The collection also includes a few clippings pertaining to subsequent events in the labor movement in the auto industry, such as the Battle of the Overpass, sit-down strikes of 1937, and earlier 1930's auto strikes.
Dates:
1920 - 1938
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Robert W. Dunn Papers
Samuel Krieger Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001616
Abstract
Samuel Krieger was born in Russia on August 20, 1902. Mr. Krieger came to the United States at age two and grew up in New York and New Jersey. He graduated from grammar school and went to work in the aircraft industry. Mr. Krieger was a member and recruiter for the Industrial Workers of the World. He served as an international representative for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. In 1953 he began work as an organizer and business agent for the International Brotherhood...
Dates:
1926 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1983
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Samuel Krieger Papers
Samuel M. Levin Papers
Collection
Identifier: WSP000059
Abstract
From 1915-1919 Professor Levin taught history and economics at Detroit Central High School and Detroit Junior College. In 1920 he served as Chairman of the History Committee, organized to revise the history curriculum of the secondary schools of the City of Detroit. He was appointed Professor of Economics and Chaired the Economics Department from 1933-1953. Subjects include, Equity of Sacrifice Program, Ford Motor Company labor policies, 1919-1934, Jewish life, Menorah Society, 1911-1912, and...
Dates:
1871 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1975
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Samuel M. Levin Papers