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Describes growing restrictions, especially in housing and employment, facing Negroes in Detroit since World War I. Reprinted in Detroit Tribune, August 19, 1939, pg. 10

Gives background and first developments in Sipes v. McGhee case, with emphasis on role of attorneys Willis M. Graves and Francis Dent.

Enjoins defendants from refusing to lease public housing project units because of race

Lists each plant, number of local union represented, and type of clause

Beginning with 1947 regularly includes report from Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination; 1939, Negro Workers, p. 33-34; 1941 [Negro leaders and workers in the Ford victory] p. 22-23; 1946. Fair practices Committee, p.40-45

Warns Local's members who violate non-discrimination policies there will be no protection against ensuing discipline

Sets forth in verse union's position on discrimination

"Suggests the kinds of immediate action that can be effective in the eradication of the poisonous growth of discrimination."

Program of two-day conference shows union attempts to educate membership against intolerance

Studies "the accomplishment of anti-discrimination policy by means of rule-making powers" in this account of the overturning of discriminatory real estate practices white support from NAACP and other in Grosse Pointe suburbs