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Pictures some of skilled blacks working at Detroit Arsenal at Centerline

Captioned pictures illustrate low level of morale and strained labor-management and racial relations

Finds black member of labor force in early 1935, moved propotionately less frequently than whites, with more very short (intra-county) or very long (interstate) moves.

Includes one page entitled "Colored Count in Tool Rooms"

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…

Reports data from interview of sample of the insured unemployed without work over five weeks as of June 1 1961, in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.

Quotes from studies of Negro in Detroit following first World War; states that delegates from Michigan attended second annual meeting of Nation Labor Union [Colored] in January, 1871.

Uses case history of Detroit worker to illustrate economic effects of auto manufacturers' attitude change toward employing poor blacks.

Chapter 10. The Negro Automobile Worker. P.513-653.Contains more statistical and biographical data than Myrdal's American Dilemma, for which it was prepared.

Urges help in campaign for jobs