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Maurice Sugar - Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 (Paperback)
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Maurice Sugar - Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 (Paperback)
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It was Maurice Sugar, labor activist and lawyer for the United Auto
Workers, who played a key role in guiding the newly-formed union
through the treacherous legal terrain obstructing its development
in the 1930s. He orchestrated the injunction hearings on the Dodge
Main strike and defended the legality of the sit-down tactic. As
the UAW's General Council, he wrote the union's constitution in
1939, a model of democratic thinking. Sugar worked with George
Addes, UAW Secretary-Treasurer, to nurture rank-and-file power. A
founder of the National Lawyers' Guild, Sugar also served as a
member of Detroit's Common Council at the head of a UAW ""labor""
ticket. By 1947, Sugar was embroiled in a struggle within the UAW
that he feared would destroy the open structures he had helped to
build. He found himself in opposition to Walter Reuther's bid to
run the union. A long-time socialist, Sugar fell victim to mounting
Cold War hysteria. When Reuther assumed control of the UAW, Sugar
was summarily dismissed. Christopher Johnson chronicles the life of
Maurice Sugar, from his roots in Michigan's Upper Peninsula,
through his resistance with Eugene V. Debs to World War I, and on
to the struggles of the early 1930s to bring the union message to
Detroit. Firmly grounded on the historiography of the UAW, Johnson
shows the importance of Sugar and the Left in laying the foundation
for unionizing the auto industry in the pre-UAW days. He documents
the work of the Left in building a Black-labor coalition in
Detroit, the importance of anti-Communism in Reuther's rise to
power, and the diminution of union democracy in the UAW brought
about by the Cold War. Maurice Sugar represents a force in American
life that bears recalling in these barren years of plant closings.
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