(8763) UAW Organizing, Violence, Reuther, Frankensteen, Dearborn, 1937

Walter Reuther comforts Richard Frankensteen following their assault by Ford Service Department employees during the “Battle of the Overpass”. The men were beaten and tossed down a flight of stairs for distributing United Auto Workers leaflets outside of the Ford Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan.

(8763) UAW Organizing, Violence, Reuther, Frankensteen, Dearborn, 1937
Date: 
1937-05-26
Physdesc: 
Photograph
Photographer: 
Unknown