Q1: What perspective did workers hold when it came to unions and/or strikes?
Formative Performance Task:
Students will examine the primary sources that highlight the perspective of workers and UAW leadership regarding unions/strikes. Focus questions will be used to draw students’ attention to the key issues raised by workers as well as UAW leadership. Students will discuss and rank the importance of these issues in small collaborative groups.
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"Organize and Be a Winner"
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Political Cartoon illustrating a boxing match between a person labelled G. M. and another labelled Union Workers
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Political Cartoon
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English
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Pen-and-Ink drawing
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- Subject
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"The Union Men" song
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Lyrics to a song about union men fighting General Motors
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LP000112_009_030
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English
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Flint Sit-Down Strike
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- Description
- Creator
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- Language
- Subject
- extracted text
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Homer Martin to All Organized Workers
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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
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Homer Martin
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January 14, 1937
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Letter
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English
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Flint Sit-Down Strike
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- Description
- Contributor
- Coverage
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- Identifier
- Language
- Publisher
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- extracted text
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Open Letter from Robert Travis and B. J. Widick
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UAWA organizer and URWA editor on General Motors' role in the Flint Sit-Down Strike
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Robert Travis, B. J. Widick
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Flint, Michigan
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January 12, 1937
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Letter
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LP000112_009_003
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English
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Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University
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