More than wages at stake with strike

December 30th, 1936. Another day of infamy for the organized labor movement in this state as GM workers launched a first of it’s kind sit down strike at Fisher Body 1 in Flint. And after the 44-day strike was over and after the GM suits sent in the cops to tear gas the sit down workers resulting in a riot, the body count was 16 line workers and 11 police officers injured. There will be no human…