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Ford Motor Co.: Employees: Strikes, UAW Local 600 at City Gate 4, Rouge Plant

A group of workers at the River Rouge Plant (UAW Local 600) carrying picket signs

UAW Organizing, Reuther, Frankensteen, Battle of the Overpass, 1937

UAW organizers pose for the press on the Miller Road Overpass as members of the Ford Service Department approach. Moments after this image was taken the organizers were savagely beaten by the servicemen in the incident that would become known as the Battle of the Overpass. Left to right: Robert Kanter, Walter P. Reuther, Richard Frankensteen, J.J. Kennedy.

Ford Strike, Picket Lines, Dearborn, Michigan, 1941

Auto workers and their families celebrate the forecasted end to the Ford Strike on the picket lines of the Ford Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan.

"4 Die as 3000 Riot for Jobs in Ford Plant"

Newspaper Clipping about Ford Hunger March aftermath

Ford "Hunger Marchers" as Seen From The News Airplane

Newspaper image illustration showing an aerial view of the area around the Ford Plan in Dearborn, 1932. The image shows where marchers approached as well as Ford security and Dearborn Police preparations

"Four Killed in Riot at Ford Plant..." clipping

A headline clipped from a newspaper reading, "Four Killed in Riot at Ford Plant as 3000 idle fight; Fifty are injured in Dearborn Battle When Police Fire on Unemployed Marchers"

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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