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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.

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

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…

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.

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

Warns Local's members who violate non-discrimination policies there will be no protection against ensuing discipline

Lists each plant, number of local union represented, and type of clause

Gives totals by plant and UAW local for October 1941, October 1942, and April 1943

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

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