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While George Johnson, the picket leader at the central gate of the Hamtramck plant, charged that Chrysler had no respect for the union any more, picketers on the line at the gate next door were arguing that they had no union. The validity of that assessment is questionable, but it is clear that workers are not unified...
...Detroit metropolitan area is an economic dependent of the automobile industry. In fact, Highland Park and Hamtramck, the two small cities that sit in the center of Detroit, have only one industry--Chrysler...
Although both the union and the corporation sidestep the issue when questioned, saying that they have no statistics at their fingertips, the presence of Arabs has created new problems in the factories. At the Hamtramck plant, black and white picketers said that the Arabs have been arriving for work at the plant at the rate of 500 a month...
...rain to collect their strike pay-$30 a week for a single man, $40 for a family-the strikers in their baggy cotton pants and frayed shirts evoked an image of the 1930s. The line stretched around the grimy headquarters of United Auto Workers Local 235 in Hamtramck, Mich. Occasionally, one of the men raised a clenched fist in salute, or another flashed a smile for photographers or a V-for-victory gesture, but mostly they were strangely silent. Across the street, pickets patrolled Chevrolet's gear and axle plant, carrying signs that proclaimed: UAW ON STRIKE FOR JUSTICE...
Less Than a Minute. One such factory is the 60-year-old Dodge plant in Hamtramck, Mich., where Belcher works. Promptly at 6 a.m., the assembly line begins sending cars past his work station, and from then on Belcher is a part of the line, like the well-oiled gears and bearings. The noise is deafening; Belcher could not talk to the men at the next stations three feet away even if there were time. There never is. Partially assembled cars move past him at the rate of 62 an hour; in less than one minute he is expected...