I r n S? TUP W FFK PULLOUT SECTION INSIDE ^hjk H w 1® H 1^1 S te ffi H 11 H I i Has* 11 m % ( S T % JULY 20-26, 1997 THE DETROIT VOL. 2 NO. 36 75 CENTS S unday To u r n a l CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE AND CONTRACTS ©TDSJ INSIDE UAW ends long strike with big gains at GM By Martha Hindes Journal Automotive Writer In a mass meeting at the Pontiac Silverdome on Friday, members of UAW Local 594 claimed a major victory as they overwhelmingly ratified a strike- ending contract with General Motors Corp. The new contract, approved by 93.5 percent of UAW members, included major victories for the union. It brings back to GM’s Pontiac truck complex more than 550 production and skilled trades jobs to replace many that Re m e m b e r in g had been lost in the past decade. It include substantial holiday pay and financial penalties for t h e r io t s By Christopher M. Singer grievances that will cost the A d ­ Journal Staff Writer company almost $10 million. It A n entire generation has passed since the also eliminates subcontracting / % events that began for Detroit early on and offers production workers / % Sunday morning, July 23, 1967 - time the chance to move up to higher- JL enough to gain some perspective on whatpaying skilled trades jobs. was then the costliest urban uprising in U.S. history.And it sends back to work more than 6,100 workers who Forty-three people died. An entire neighborhood had been on strike for 84 days, was reduced to ashes. The 101st Airborne Division, the longest strike against GM in just back from combat in Vietnam, occupied Detroit’s two decades. east side; the Michigan National Guard occupied the Local 594 President Ron Miller west side. Even as the fires were blazing, President Lyndon said he had no doubt the con­ tract would be overwhelmingly B. Johnson appointed Illinois Gov. Otto Kemer to ratified. “We got an enormous head a blue-ribbon presidential commission to inves­ amount of liability in terms of tigate the string of more than a hundred uprisings money,” he said. “We got quite a that began in Harlem and Watts in 1964 and 1965 bit of manpower. We got almost and culminated in Newark and Detroit in July 1967. all the other stuff we came after.” Johnson sent one of his key aides, Cyrus Vance, to In a statement prepared Detroit and Vance ordered Michigan Gov. George journal photo by DAYMON J. HARTLEY Wednesday after agreement on Romney and UAW President Walter Reuther to orga­ Vince Alonzi, front and center, expresses the feelings of fellow strikers in nize a similar, local blue-ribbon group. It still exists: S ee UAW, P age 16 UAW Local 594 as they ratify a contract with GM. New Detroit Inc. The Kerner Commission reported back to Johnson in 1968 that the United States was splitting in two, CITY & STATE SPORTS INDEX forming separate and unequal societies, one black Entertainment Page 28 and poor, the other white and upwardly mobile. Oakland Press owner Scotty Bowman will Today the Sunday Journal looks back at those vio­is buying The Macomb return as Wings Classifieds Page 33 lent days in 1967 and the changes they brought to the metro area. For photos by legendary photogra­Daily, a move that coach, but Ken Crossword Page 35 pher Tony Spina and personal reminisces of an eventcould threaten De­ Holland will become Editorials Page 26 that helped shape what our community is today, see Pages 4-12. troit’s dailies.Page 3. the GM. Backpage. 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