Radical Responses to the The Great Depression

Don't Be Fooled! It's Your Wages and Your Unions They're After.
Washington: Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1939.

With collective bargaining guaranteed by the Wagner Act of 1935, American labor made the greatest strides in its history by industry-wide organization of the great manufacturing plants. Michigan, the seat of the automobile industry, witnessed some of the most dramatic conflicts (see exhibit section "Violence in Labor Strikes"), and never was public opinion more aroused than by the sit-down strikes, which were seen on one hand as the flagrant abuse of private property rights and on the other as the ultimate weapon of syndicalist-minded workers.

	RADICAL RESPONSES TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION Organizations: Labor Unions, the Communist Party, and the Socialist Party
		Don't Be Fooled! It's Your Wages and Your Unions They're After. Washington: Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1939. With collective bargaining guaranteed by the Wagner Act of 1935, American labor made the greatest strides in its history by industry-wide organization of the great manufacturing plants. Michigan, the seat of the automobile industry, witnessed some of the most dramatic conflicts (see exhibit section "Violence in Labor Strikes"), and never was public opinion more aroused than by the sit-down strikes, which were seen on one hand as the flagrant abuse of private property rights and on the other as the ultimate weapon of syndicalist-minded workers.