"No Labor Dictators for Us": Anti-Union Workers during the Flint Sit-Down Strikes.

When the Flint Auto Worker published a stinging joke on June 24 about Paul Loisell and another pro-company worker, Jake Bowers, quipping that the men needed "some nice new knee pads" to continue pleasing GM management (politically and sexually, the writer suggested), Kraus soon responded with a request that UAW members tone down their harsh words for anti-union workers. In January 1937 - almost two weeks into the sit-down strikes at Chevrolet and Fisher Body No. 2 in Flint, Michigan - workers who opposed the factory occupations began making public their disapproval. Sun coverage of local opposition to the sit-downs suggested more than once that some anti-union workers' actions stemmed from their own initiative, rather than company direction.[67] Anti-union workers also played a key role in company-led attacks on the UAW and its supporters in GM's Anderson, Indiana, factories in early 1937. La Follette suggested that Malpas conveniently sided with the group of anti-union workers because they were acting in the interest of the company when they chased UAW supporters out of the plant.[66] Reports in the Baltimore Sun suggested that "anti-strike" GM workers in the city were especially active in their attempts to push back against the actions of their pro-union counterparts - and those Democrats who endorsed unionization. [Extracted from the article]