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Answer the following about union busting in America in 1937, for 10 points each.
[10e] Harry Bennett grew the “Service Department” at this Dearborn-based company into a paramilitary security force that attacked Walter Reuther’s (“ROO-thur’s”) United Auto Workers in the 1937 Battle of the Overpass.
ANSWER: Ford [or Ford Motor Company or Ford Motors]
[10h] Remington Rand’s strike ended in 1937 after James Rand, Jr. pioneered a union busting “formula” named for this region, which entailed spreading propaganda about union “agitators” and arming vigilantes to break strikes.
ANSWER: Mohawk Valley [accept Mohawk Valley formula; prompt on Syracuse]
[10m] The Memorial Day Massacre during the 1937 Little Steel strike was investigated by this Senate Committee on labor rights, which was chaired by the son of a third-party presidential candidate who ran with Burton K. Wheeler.
ANSWER: La Follette Committee [or La Follette Civil Liberties Committee] (It was chaired by “Young Bob,” the son of Robert M. La Follette.)
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