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Describes a typical Southern scene for labor recruitment to auto plants, types of jobs available, wages paid, and living conditions of Detroit's new in-migrants.

[Negroes and Organized Labor in Selected Cities]: Detroit Michigan. Shows Great Lakes Stewards, and organizations of women laundry workers, brick layers, and plasterers and cement mixers to be only union locals having black memberships.

Describes exploits of Detroiters Captain Charles Thomas and Specialist of S. Hal Johnson.

Synthesizes interviews with nearly fifty Grand Rapids Negro leaders into an analysis of the black community and its leadership.

Attributes Detroit's racial peace in part to excellent Negro leadership, much of it union-based.

Discusses in great detail, but avoiding use of personal names, racial employment practices of auto companies in World War II period.

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.

Explores black worker's relation to management, to white labor, and to the union.

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.

Quotes from Negro in Detroit; summarizes and comments on Sweet case.