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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.

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

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

Includes some material on UAW, Ford Motor Company, Sojourner Truth and the 1943 Riots, police-community relations

Typed original of this mimeographed statement bears signature of Rev. Charles A. Hill. Statement stresses importance to the Negro community of winning the strike.

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

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

Two State Senators urge a vote for CIO in upcoming Ford elections called by NLRB.

Through reproductions of newspaper stories and pictures gives background of UAW recognition by Ford Motor Company in 1941. Pictures of Negroes point up their role in organizing drive.

Urges CIO vote at upcoming Ford representation elections. Carries statements by five black Ford workers: Shelton Tappes, Walter B. Morgan, Veal Clough, Tanner T. Perry, and Al Johnson