Labor Quiz: The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit?

Monday, March 26, 2012

Labor Quiz: The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit?(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Who originally classified legendary UAW President Walter Reuther (at right) as the most dangerous man in Detroit? Henry Ford, George Romney or Alfred P. Sloan? Click here and you could be this week’s winner!
Last Week’s Quiz: An agreement that new workers were forced to sign as a condition of employment, stating that they were not members of any union and that they would not join a union, was known as a “yellow dog contract.” Says reader Matt Borus “Learned this from a Charlie King song!” And, says Tom Cowperthwaite, “The yellow dog contract was used extensively to bust unionization drives in the early 20th century, for example after the large-scale NYC transit strikes in 1916.”

 

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