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Includes one page entitled "Colored Count in Tool Rooms"

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

Discusses relationship of Henry Ford to Negro ministers; Negro politics in the area; job selling at Ford.

Citing several examples, alleges jobs at Ford Motor Company for Negroes are largely undesirable, unhealthful, poorly paid, and used for coercive purposes.

Describes Ford's contacts with black ministers, Rev. Daniel and Rev. Bradby, and his two black employees, William Perry and Don Marshall.

April 5th issue carries lead article, "Greetings to Negro workers" and states, "This edition has been especially written to explain to the Negro community the program and policy of the UAW - CIO in regards to the present organizational drive." The…

Engineer is William D. Bowman who works at Ford Motor Company's Research and Design Center in Dearborn.

Makes many references to role played by Negroes in Ford Organizing Drive. p.133-167. A New Deal for Labor

Summarizes efforts and success of Ford, Chrysler, and GM in employing "hard core" unemployed.

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