Q1: What were the working conditions of factory workers in Michigan prior to the Flint strike? What does this show regarding the need to organize labor?
Formative Performance Task: Jigsaw
Students will work in jigsaw groups to analyze the message behind the political cartoons and the letters. Each group will examine a different cartoon and letter of correspondence.
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Political Cartoon Analysis Worksheet
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Day 1 Analysis: Political Cartoons
Name______________________
Cartoon #______
What is the central idea or message in the document?
What inferences can be made regarding the workers’ struggles and the union movement?
What symbols do you notice? How are they used?
Which political cartoon did you find most interesting and why?
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Flint Sit-Down Strike cartoon
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A man labeled "Jim Sloan" offers sit-down strikers, pictured in the Fisher Body Plant, an "alliance" depicted as a club.
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Circa 1937
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drawing, cartoon
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LP000112_009_032e
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English
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"Wall Street Banker" cartoon
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A drawing of a man pouring money into a trough for a large pig labelled "Wall Street Banker" with auto factories in the background.
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circa 1930s
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LP000112_009_032d
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Auto workers
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drawing, cartoon
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"We'll Stay til We Win" cartoon
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Hand-drawn cartoon of a man in overalls sitting in a factory saying "we'll stay til we win"
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Domino Gadwell
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circa 1937
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LP000112_009_032e
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English
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Flint Sit-Down Strike
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drawing, cartoon
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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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LP000112_9_32
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English
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Pen-and-Ink drawing
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Day 2: Correspondence Analysis Worksheet
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Kari Shagena
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2024
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Day 2: Correspondence Analysis
Read letter to Krause from Johnson.
1. What inferences can be made about work in factories based on this letter?
2. What is an interesting line that stands out to you and why?
3. What is the goal of the letter?
Read letter to UAW from R. W. Ayers.
1. What inferences can be made about work in factories based on this letter?
2. What is an interesting line that stands out to you and why?
3. What is the goal of the letter?
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Johnson to Kraus
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Letter from a former GM and Ford worker in support of the Flint Sit-Down Strike
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1937
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Henry Kraus Papers, Box 9 folder 27
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Flint sit-down strike
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United Auto Workers
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UAW
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R.W. Ayers to UAW
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A letter from a union member to the union's leadership, 1937
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R. W. Ayers
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1937
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Henry Kraus Papers
Box 9
Folder 27 Letter to Union from Outsiders (3 of 4)
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Flint sit-down strike
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Auto Workers Uounion of America,
In as much as I do despise this statement it is surely time to do this shut down [I am now on the last leaf of my thoughts] unless this thing isn't settled soon + darn soon. [I shall loose everything I have] + God knows just where it all comes from [I shall be forced to stop my daughter from going to high school] Just fore the sake of this strike I just can't get the money to keep her in school any more fore she can't walk 5 miles to school. I have been a Uounion man fore 7 years + can say this much that it all is a hopeless job to my best judgement [I feel that this Organization has ____ more homes + families than all the good it will ever do fore any of them] I am not asking any help from this organization but I do think you might realize there is others that exist except just a handful of men that can't see fore them selves [I am 2 months behind on my car + furniture] When will any one ever get there breath on the lousy wages you will get when this is all over [my best advise is to get down to some settlement of some sort]
As a Uounion member, I am
R. W. Ayers
Mt. Morris Mich
R. R. #1 ______ Road