Q3: What writings including poems, songs, or plays were created to inspire change?
Formative Task:
After reading the songs and poems created by the autoworkers, students will create a song of their own highlighting a labor issue today.
Sources:
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- Identifier
- Language
- 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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English
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Flint Sit-Down Strike
Item sets
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- Description
- Date
- Identifier
- Language
- Text
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Page 1: Letter to Homer Martin from Outsider
– A Challenge
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A letter from Gerald Schooley sending poems of support to striking GM workers
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2-10-1937
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English
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Homer Martin, President and Ed. 801-5 Hoffman Building, Detroit, Michigan
[From] New Haven, Ind. Feb. 10, 1937
Dear sir:
I am sending a few verses which you may be able to use. I am a former Auto Worker, one of the Charter members of International Harvester Company Local and was sec'y treas. of ILU 18776.
I am keenly interested in your General Motors troubles and hope you will win out in every detail. I wish to congratulate you on the showing made to date as I realize that the odds are always against the laborer who attempts to better his position.
Yours Truly,
Gerald Schooley
Item sets
- Title
- Description
- Creator
- Date
- Identifier
- Language
- Related to
- Source
- Subject
- Text
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Page 2: Letter to Homer Martin from Outsider
– A Challenge
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A letter from Gerald Schooley sending poems of support to striking GM workers
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Gerald Schooley
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02-10-1937
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English
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Henry Kraus Papers, Box 9 Folder 26, Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
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Flint Sit-Down Strike
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A Challenge:
Who are the Kings to-day
Ruling with scepters of steel
The brass-trimmed Monarch Machine,
The iron made God by the Wheel
With clang and clatter of gears
They measure the work of the hand
They say that their price is fair
and feed on the fat of the land
They steal from the mouth of the poor
To lay in the palm of the rich
Bestriding the whole universe
From temple of lowly ditch.
Woe to the shivering wight
Who ventures a faltering "nay"
His fate is a leper's fate
for a man was meant to obey
Item sets
- Title
- Description
- Creator
- Date
- Identifier
- Language
- Related to
- Source
- Text
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Page 3: Letter to Homer Martin from Outsider
– A Challenge
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A letter from Gerald Schooley sending poems of support to striking GM workers
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Gerald Schooley
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02-10-1937
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English
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Henry Kraus Papers, Box 9 Folder 26, Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
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Stand not in the Monster's path
Lest be kick you in his stride
Fawn like a mongrel cur
Where is your manhood's pride?
Your body was made from clay
That your soul may find its place
Need it shrink and cower and hide
Like a school-girl in disgrace?
Clint not to your lowly state.
Arise in your Cause of Right
Man is not born to yield
To rule of insensate might
He is made in the image of One
who towers above it all
Are you willing the world should see
That mighty image fall?
Item sets
- Title
- Description
- Creator
- Date
- Identifier
- Language
- Source
- Subject
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J. G. Hodges to Homer Martin
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A letter from J. G. Hodges to UAW president Homer Martin, including a poem called "Toiler's Protest"
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J. G. Hodges
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January 10, 1937
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English
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Henry Krause Papers, Box 9 folder 27, Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
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Flint Sit-Down Strike
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