Summary

UAW vice president Walter Reuther joins striking auto workers on picket line during General Motors in Detroit, MI

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Pathe
Negative # 20796
Clip SR002820_01_01mov
Date 11/01/1945
Title UAW vice president Walter Reuther joins striking auto workers on picket line during General Motors in Detroit, MI
Description Walter Reuther, United Auto Workers VP, marches on picket line with striking auto workers outside Chevrolet plant / VS Reuther in line, wearing UAW hat, laughing with a striker / VS strikers take hot coffee from UAW members serving them at a long table / VS strikers, including an African-American man, walk in a circle; police stand nearby // EXT factory building with sign GM Diesel / strikers walk on factory grounds / factory entrance, with sign above door Victory Loan, Buy Bonds / CU GM Diesel sign with US flag behind / men in line for refreshments, with tents in background / EXT the factory, with empty parking lot // outside the Chevrolet building, VS picketers with signs, including one Cadillac Local 22 / CU woman passes by, wearing head scarf and carrying picket sign / Reuther walks with strikers outside the Chevrolet plant / Note: exact day not known
Personality Walter Reuther
Country United States
Province/State Michigan
City Detroit

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