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

Three page account of the 1941 Ford Strike by UAW Director of Negro Organizational Activities.

Committee with representatives from Frontiers, Negro Ministers' Citizens Equality Council, and NAACP, reports impressive job gains in Saginaw for Negroes. The Report was examined in the office of Henry Nickleberry, UAW Sub-Regional Office 1-D

Includes brief description of the UAW 1943 convention fight on issue of Negro board members.

p.23-28. The Price of Brotherhood. Gives examples of UAW efforts to eliminate discrimination in employment in metropolitan Detroit.

Sponsored by "a group of interested UAW members."

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

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.

Defends nineteen members (eighteen black, one white) of the Leland unit of Amalgamated Local 205, UAW, against charges, filed by the International Executive Board, of leading a movement for decertification of the union as bargaining agent at the…

Letter by a soldier's wife at Sojourner Truth Project describes her inability to secure employment at Ford Motor Co. Footnotes reads "Donated by Production Foundry-Ford Local 600, UAW-CIO."