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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 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.
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