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J. G. Hodges to Homer Martin

A letter from J. G. Hodges to UAW president Homer Martin, including a poem called "Toiler's Protest"

"What the Women Did in Flint" article by Mary Heaton Vorse

An article outlining the work women did to support the Flint Sit-Down Strike

Page 2: Letter to Homer Martin from Outsider – A Challenge

A letter from Gerald Schooley sending poems of support to striking GM workers

Page 1: Letter to Homer Martin from Outsider – A Challenge

A letter from Gerald Schooley sending poems of support to striking GM workers

Flint Sit Down Strike (1936-37)

A video from the UAW showing the Flint Sit-Down strike on film from the time.

Johnson to Kraus

Letter from a former GM and Ford worker in support of the Flint Sit-Down Strike

R.W. Ayers to UAW

A letter from a union member to the union's leadership, 1937

Mr. Homer Martin's Answer to Mr. Sloan

A press release issued by the UAW in response to GM's refusal to bargain with the UAW.

Alfred Sloan to workers

A letter sent to General Motors workers by president Alfred Sloan refusing to recognize the UAW

Homer Martin to Sloan and Knudsen of GM

A letter from Homer Martin, UAW president, addressed to Alfred Sloan and William Knudsen, General Motors executives, outlining the workers' demands in the Flint Sit-Down Strike

Homer Martin to All Organized Workers

Open letter from UAW president Homer J. Martin addressed to "all organized workers in all unions within the American Labor Movement" asking for their support in the Flint Sit-Down Strike

"The Union Men" song

Lyrics to a song about union men fighting General Motors

Flint Sit-Down Strike cartoon

A man labeled "Jim Sloan" offers sit-down strikers, pictured in the Fisher Body Plant, an "alliance" depicted as a club.

"We'll Stay til We Win" cartoon

Hand-drawn cartoon of a man in overalls sitting in a factory saying "we'll stay til we win"

Strikes: Fisher Body: Flint, Michigan 1937

Large crowd of people stand near the Fisher Body plant in Flint, Michigan during the sit-down strike, in background a plume of smoke rises near the plant.

Strikes: Fisher Body: Flint, Michigan 1937

Photographers take pictures of striking auto workers from outside the Fisher Body plant in Flint, Michigan during the sit-down strike.

Strikes: Fisher Body: Flint, Michigan 1937 -In Front of Plant 1

A line of auto workers with facial hair march at Fisher Body Plant holding a sign reading, "we shave when victory is ours"

Clip from letter on United Automobile Workers of America letterhead

To what extent did the industrialization and urbanization between 1890s and 1930s create the need for progressive reform? By Kari Shagena

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Open Letter from Robert Travis and B. J. Widick

UAWA organizer and URWA editor on General Motors' role in the Flint Sit-Down Strike