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, "205 Fight," "Unite and Fight," "We Want a Closed Shop," "[General Heinrich] Pickert Must Go," "Demand Your Right to Strike," "Kelsey Men are Union Men," "Detroit Women's Auxiliary," "West Side Local 174 is on the March," and "No Law By Injunction," and "Victory is Ours U.A.W." Several people stand atop cars, some with movie cameras, amid the protest. The naval gun on the lawn of the Wayne County Building is at the lower right. 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 Gregory, Mayer and Thom Company, the Monroe Block's Family Theatre, the Majestic Building, the Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, electric streetcars and the streetcar station in Cadillac Square, and City Hall, where a banner reading, "Fight Cancer, Women's Field Army, March 21-27th, 1937," is hung. "9," is printed in the lower left corner. "Cadillac Sq. UAW Demonstration c. Mar 1937," is handwritten on the verso.
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