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UAW experiences, particularly the Ford organizing drive, furnish many of the examples in this book. Gives UAW Negro membership, by locals, in 1937.

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Mentions W. Richard Carter, President, Local 49, Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan; and Walter Hardin, UAW.

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Makes occasional references to the auto industry, Detroit, Ford and the UAW.

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Using questionnaires and interviews, compiles such data as types of work, conditions of labor, hours, methods of pay, discriminatory practices toward Negro workers, relationship with unions.

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Explores black worker's relation to management, to white labor, and to the union.

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Ratings, based on condition of civil rights, labor unions, treatment of Negroes by police, etc. range from "very good" for Pontiac, to "poor" for Detroit, and "bad" for Grand Rapids.

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Condemns Detroit Police Department and its Commissioner, Harry S. Toy, for anti-Negro and anti-union violence.
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