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Labor Militancy and the CIO. Book reviews are due on Monday, November 14. Wagner Act > United Automobile Workers poster addressing Ford workers. Labor in the 1930s > Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times , 1936. CIO > AFL and CIO. AFL skilled workers only by craft anti-immigrant
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Wagner Act > United Automobile Workers poster addressing Ford workers
CIO > AFL and CIO • AFL • skilled workers only • by craft • anti-immigrant • native-born white male workers only • CIO • all workers, including semi-skilled (majority) • by industry • actively recruited immigrants, women, and nonwhites
Strikes > UAW organizers Walter Reuther and Richard Frankensteen pose for press photographers, River Rouge Plant, May 26, 1937
Strikes > They were approached by Ford Service Department men
Strikes > Reuther and Frankensteen immediately after the incident
Strikes > Sit-down strike cartoon, New York World-Telegram, March 1937