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Spring 2019 Newsletter LOOKING BACK Moving Forward Michigan Labor History Society Special Edition, Spring 2019 • mlhs.wayne.edu LABOR in MICHIGAN Learning from the Past & Moving Toward the Future THEN & NOW: Left, women at the Goody Nut Shop in Detroit occupy their store during a wave of sit-down strikes in 1937. Today, hundreds of By STEVIE BLANCHARD young Detroiters are demanding a higher or more than a century, Michigan minimum wage, workers have built movements to demonstrating in Fimprove their lives. From mass protests front of fast-food demanding an eight-hour workday, to strikes restaurants and on by streetcar drivers, copper miners, furniture downtown streets, and for a sustain- workers, and others, the labor movement able future with inspired and energized generations of working Green Union jobs. Continued on page 2 Photos: JimWestphoto.com | HistoricNut Shops strike photo: Walter P. Reuther Library Reuther P. Walter photo: strike Shops HistoricNut | JimWestphoto.com Photos: SPRING 2019 Labor in Michigan Continued from page 1 people. And then, in 1937, a tidal wave of sit-down strikes washed across Mich- igan, as workers stood up to corporate dominance with a new, powerful tactic. The results showed the determination of workers: the sit-down strike at General Photo: Photo: Jim Westphoto.com Motors in Flint took 44 days — starting just after Christmas 1936, not ending until Feb. 11, 1937, with a victory for the United Auto Workers. That was the start of a monumental year. There was hardly a day in 1937 with- out some form of worker action. So much so that local newspapers kept a front-page Hotel workers, government employees, home-care workers, and others have been among the thousands of Michigan workers who have demonstrated in recent months. tally of places on strike. Now, more than eighty years later, it unions, and the workers they represent, Recently, we’ve seen young activists is important not only to look back, but will survive is when those workers take a striking and marching for a higher min- to move forward, always asking how stand for themselves. imum wage, joining with community do we learn from the autoworker, the groups to save families from evictions, lumberjack, the dime-store sales clerk, usiness unionism is behind us. The marching for women’s rights, organizing the cigar-roller, the hotel and restaurant Bservice model, in which workers and striking against cutbacks in education. worker — all among the groups that went view their union as something that they Looking back at earlier decades we can on strike back then — and build power for pay dues to in order to receive services, see what victory looks like and how to get workers today? as they would an insurance company, is there through collective action. Going The Michigan Labor History Society dying in front of us. forward, those events remind us of a basic (MLHS) is committed to examining We’ve learned that the one sure thing truth: organized labor is only as strong as these events and looking at the lessons that will build unions and create better the members are engaged and active. The they provide for today’s challenges. There working conditions for American men and heroes of the past should be our role mod- is no question that labor is in a watershed women is activism. What those early strik- els. We need to fight to be more inclusive moment. ers and today’s workers share is the desire and support all workers. If so, we could see Our opponents have been empow- for change. Labor can continue to harness another year like those in the 1930s that ered, particularly after the 2016 these emotions into collective action. inspire us. We’re certainly due. election. But one thing hasn’t changed, Today, you cannot open an Internet and probably never will: the only way that browser or watch a TV without hearing his publication focuses on 10 key labor about the many losers in our economy, Tevents that took place in Michigan from students to retirees to immigrants during the 19th and 20th centuries. Sto- and far too many more to list. Workers ries were contributed by members of the have become wage slaves. Union mem- MLHS program committee and in some Ten EventsContents in Michigan Labor History bership numbers have declined since cases appeared earlier in the MLHS jour- Fighting for an Eight-Hour Day, 1886.......4 the 1950s. But there is a silver lining. nal, “Looking Back, Moving Forward,” Streetcars Come To a Halt, 1891.................5 Like the workers in 1937, there is a in the UAW publication, “We Make Our widespread desire for change among Own History,” or in the program for “For- Furniture Workers Put Down workers. People are tired of losing, then gotten: The Murder at the Ford Rouge Their Tools, 1911...........................................7 being told, “that’s how it goes, chum.” Plant,” a jazz opera about the 1930s by Calumet & Copper: We face strong, powerful and unprin- Steve Jones and produced three times in The Italian Hall Disaster, 1913...................8 cipled opposition. But we have all the Michigan between 2004 and 2010. Ford Hunger March, 1932........................10 resources we need to win: the workers. In the centerfold, you will find a map Workers can return to our roots, of labor history sites in Michigan with Flint: Standing Up by to remember that unions are about annotated information on each site. You Sitting Down, 1936.....................................11 worker power and voice. They are can use the map and information to Lansing’s Labor Holiday, June 1937.........12 learning about power: how it is gener- create your own road trip to these sites, Woolworth’s: Dime-Store Women ated and how it is used. The sit-down where you can learn more about Michi- Say ‘Enough,’ Feb. 1937...............................13 strikes were very effective — so much gan’s labor history. Additional copies of so that they are now illegal. But there this publication are available from the Battle of the Overpass, May 1937...........14 are other tactics and strategies out Michigan Labor History Society, 5401 Lumberjacks Go On Strike, 1937..............15 there that workers are discovering and Cass Ave., Detroit MI 48202. You can Plan Your Road Trip ………Center insert using. As an earlier union publication also view the map and guide at our web- put it: “We Make Our Own History.” site: mlhs.wayne.edu #WITH THE FAMILY OF LABOR LABORFEST # # CELEBRATINGFORDMICHIGAN LABOR’S FIELD HERITAGE SUN., SEPT. 12, 2004 • 11 A.M.~6 P.M. uerker FOOD • LaborArt by Matt W History Briefs EXHIBITS Mobilizing• for of Richmond, Virginia; AFL-CIO labor lawyers attending a national conference; DETROITLabor Day 2019 attendees at the North American Labor The annual Labor Day Mobilization History Conference at Wayne State Uni- Luncheon# MUSICsponsored • GAMES by the Michigan versity; students at the WSU Labor School; Labor History Society will be held on union members who work at Central Mich- Tuesday, August 20, at UAW Region 1-A, igan University; FinnFest USA, and others. 9650 S. Telegraph Rd., Taylor, Michigan. MLHS offers groups a two-hour bus Tickets are $40 and include a tasty lun- tour through metro Detroit or a one-hour built automobiles and were retooled for cheon, a special program, and a one-year walking tour along Woodward Avenue the war effort. More than 60,000 Michi- membership in the Society. For infor- from Grand Circus Park to the riverfront. gan women of all ages and races mation and reservations, please call the Guide services are free, but groups are participated in the war production, filling MLHS office at 313-577-4003. asked to provide a bus with a public-ad- the jobs of men who had been drafted into Finnish-Americans in dress system. For reservations, contact the armed forces. the MLHS at 5401 Cass Ave., Detroit, The 48-page book is geared to readers Michigan’s Workforce Michigan 48202, or call 313-577-4003. Thousands of immigrants from Europe, aged six to 12 and was published last year For visitors to the Upper Peninsula, the Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Mid- by Wayne State University Press. The list National Park Service provides free ranger dle East came to Detroit during the 20th price is $16.99 and the book is available walks from the Keweenaw National His- century to seek jobs in the growing auto from WSU Press, at many bookstores, and toric Park visitors’ center in Calumet. The industry. Among them were many set- online. walks take visitors to sites connected with tlers from Finland, some of whom went the 1913 copper miners’ strike and the to work in the copper mines of the Upper tragedy at the Italian Hall. Peninsula, while others moved into the Detroit neighborhood around Woodrow Three Conferences Focus Wilson and Davison Streets. From Sep- tember 19-23, many of the descendants On Michigan History LOOKING BACK The Michigan Labor History Society of these Finnish immigrants will come to is one of the sponsors of the “Michigan metro Detroit for the annual FinnFest, a Moving Forward in Perspective: The Local History Con- gathering that features panels, lectures, Special Edition 2019 published by the ference” taking place March 22-23, and field trips. The Michigan Labor His- Michigan Labor History Society 2019 at the Sterling Conference Center in c/o Walter P. Reuther Library tory Society has been asked to provide a Sterling Heights. The conference, which 5401 Cass, Detroit MI 48202 labor history bus tour for participants. features speakers, panels, and workshops Phone: 313-577-4003 In addition to the usual tour of labor his- on a variety of Michigan history topics, Become a member by sending your name, tory sites, we will visit the old Finn Hall on is one of three held annually by the Lan- address, e-mail, and union affiliation if any to the 14th Street in Detroit, which later became sing-based Historical Society of Michigan.
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