My beloved Grandpa John Ciaramella sat in the Dodge Main Plant on May 8, 1937 about 10,000 Dodge Main workers began a two-week sitdown strike to win company recognition of the United Automobile Workers (U.A.W.). The strike the largest sitdown in American history, ended on March 25 and on April 7, the Chrysler Corporation recognized the union. War contracts revived the plant, with peak employment reaching about 40,000. Even after Dodge Main returned to civilian production, high postwar demand for cars brought continued prosperity. With the Korean War further stimulating production, 33,000 worked at Dodge Main in 1951. Since the early 1950s, employment has steadily fallen as various operations were automated or moved to other plants. Dodge Main had become an assembly plant by the early 1960s, lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/mi/mi0100/mi0166/data/mi0166data.pdf of Hamtramck was largely determined by the Dodge Main plant.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:37:05 +0000
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