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Contains occasional reference to Negroes' role in the development of CIO and its affiliates, particularly the UAW.

Chapter 9. Automobiles and Aircraft. p. 186-209. Gives historical and current data, and predicts post-war developments. Chapter 9. Automobiles and Aircraft. p. 186-209.

[Negroes and Organized Labor in Selected Cities]: Detroit Michigan. Shows Great Lakes Stewards, and organizations of women laundry workers, brick layers, and plasterers and cement mixers to be only union locals having black memberships.

Summarizes meeting of craft and industrial unions in Kalamazoo on March 8, 1958, on topic "Role of Trade Unions in Equal Employment Opportunity."

Analyzes attitudes of a sample of voters, of which 19% were Negroes, in 1952 elections. Reveals no significant racial differences.

Makes infrequent references (i.e., pg. 21, 34, 54, 65, 68, 79) to Michigan developments - a Negro assembly in Bay City, and comments on all-Negro assemblies in Advance and Labor Leaf, and Plain-dealer.

Pg. 58-62. Michigan. Summarizes study of patterns of employment in the construction industry in Detroit, Lansing, and Grand Rapids, and practices of employers, unions, and apprentice training schools.

Makes reference to racial composition of Detroit, housing problems, and relationship of Negro to union. Contains vivid description of 1943 Race Riot.

Gives text of talk by Secretary of Ford Local 600 and President of the Council.

Editor of Michigan Chronicle and President of Michigan Civil Rights Federation join President of Michigan Division, National Negro Congress, in pointing out to Ford Motor Company the racial implications of their action in the Ford Strike.