1937 newspaper FORD MOTOR FOUND GUILTY of LABOR VIOLATIONS during WORKER STRIKE

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1937 newspaper FORD MOTOR FOUND GUILTY of LABOR VIOLATIONS during WORKER STRIKE
1937 newspaper FORD MOTOR CO is FOUND GUILTY of LABOR VIOLATIONS of the Wagner Labor Act during the UAW LABOR STRIKE "Battle of the Overpass"
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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Charlotte Observer
(NC) dated Dec 24, 1937.  This original newspaper contains a bold banner headline with coverage of the
"guilty" verdict under the Wagner Labor Relations Act against the FORD MOTOR COMPANY during the "BATTLE OF THE OVERPASS."
The Battle of the Overpass was an incident on May 26, 1937, in which Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clashed with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Plant complex in Dearborn, Michigan. After images of the incident were released to the public, support for Henry Ford and his company greatly decreased.
The UAW had planned a leaflet campaign entitled, "Unionism, Not Fordism", at the pedestrian overpass over Miller Road at Gate 4 of the River Rouge Plant complex. Demanding an (equivalent to 2 today) six-hour day for workers, in contrast to the (equivalent to 7 today) eight-hour day then in place, the campaign was planned for shift change time, with an expected 9,000 workers both entering and leaving the plant.
At approximately 2 p.m., several of the leading UAW union organizers, including Walter Reuther and Richard Frankensteen, were asked by a Detroit News photographer, James R. (Scotty) Kilpatrick, to pose for a picture on the overpass, with the Ford sign in the background. While they were posing, men from Ford's Service Department, an internal security force under the direction of Harry Bennett, came from behind and began to beat them. The number of attackers is disputed, but may have been as many as forty.
Frankensteen had his jacket pulled over his head and was kicked and punched. Reuther described some of the treatment he received:
Seven times they raised me off the concrete and slammed me down on it. They pinned my arms . . . and I was punched and kicked and dragged by my feet to the stairway, thrown down the first flight of steps, picked up, slammed down on the platform and kicked down the second flight. On the ground they beat and kicked me some more. . .
One union organizer, Richard Merriweather, suffered a broken back as the result of the beating he received.
The incident greatly increased support for the UAW and hurt Ford's reputation.[1] Bennett and Ford were chastised by the National Labor Relations Board for their actions. Three years later Ford signed a contract with the UAW.
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