 A sheriff's car was wrecked and overturned by GM strikers in Flint. |
 Workers at Fisher Body Plant No. 1 triumphantly march out after the strike ended in an agreement that the UAW would be recognized as the bargaining unit for union employees. |
 City police officers form a protected pathway for GM office workers to report for work at a struck plant in Flint. Police had to crack the UAW picket line to make way. |
 Police carry rifles to maintain order around the Flint plants Jan. 24, 1937. |
 An auto barricade, including one overturned car, stands near the entrance of Fisher Body Plant No. 2 one day after the "Battle of the Running Bulls." Hundreds of strikers tossed iron nuts, bolts and milk bottles at a few dozen police officers, who retaliated with tear gas and riot guns. |
 Autoworkers enjoy a victory parade outside the Fisher Body Plant on Feb. 12, 1937. One of their newly acquired gains was freedom to speak in the lunchroom. |
 Men and women form a line to carry food to strikers inside Fisher Body Plant No. 1. |
 Strikers in Flint meet the press in January, 1937. The sit-down strike at Fisher Body Plant No. 1 lasted 44 days. |
 Inside the Fisher plant, striking workers settle themselves into upholstered seats intended for autos. |
 Outside Fisher Body Plant No. 2, union leaders man the bullhorns, encouraging the strikers and attracting a crowd of union supporters. |
 The orchestra inside Fisher Body Plant No. 1 played instruments smuggled in by family and sympathizers. |
 Homer Martin, president of the fledgling UAW, addresses the rally at Cadillac Square. |
 President Roosevelt greets GM President William S. Knudsen at the meeting of the National Defense Commission in 1940. Roosevelt had promised in his inaugural speech to drive out the "economic royalists." Knudsen was vice-president of GM during the strike, and recognized that company needed to make a deal with the UAW. |
 The Reuther brothers, from left, Roy, Victor and Walter, are shown at the second UAW convention, in the summer of 1937, in Milwaukee. |