Print, Photographic
Print. Black and white photographic print depicting a rally held in support of the Flint Sit-Down Strike, held in Cadillac Square and Campus Martius, as viewed from the an elevated position in the Wayne County Building, facing west. A large crowd is gathered. Visible signs include, "We Have Just Begun to Fight," "[General Heinrich] Pickert Must Go," "Kelsey Men are Union Men," "Protect Your Union!," "We Want a Closed Shop," "Detroit Union Town," Several people stand atop cars, some with movie cameras, amid the protest. A portion of the Wayne County Building is at the right edge of the frame. The Lawyers Building, in addition to bearing signs for United Cigars, Louis the Hatter, and the Detroit Law Journal, has also been draped with several banners, including one calling for the election of Judge Wroblesky, outside the window of E. Z. Wroblesky, Lawyer. Also in view are Demos Soda, a gunsmith, Eppinger Sporting Goods, Schroeder Paint and Glass, Detroit Design Company Signs, the Barlum Hotel (where a group has gathered atop the entrance), the Cadillac Square Building, the Monroe Block's Family Theatre, the Majestic Building, the Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, electric streetcars and the streetcar station in Cadillac Square, Gayety Burlesk, Cadillac Army-Navy, the First National Building, and City Hall, where a banner reading, "Fight Cancer, Women's Field Army, March 21-27th, 1937," is hung. "8," is printed in the lower left corner. "Cadillac Sq. UAW Demonstration c. Mar 1937," is handwritten on the verso.
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