Kentucky Lantern: A Kentuckian transplanted to Detroit ‘sat down’ with the United Auto Workers in ’37
Berry Craig
They ‘called us communists — and just about everything else you could think of. But it didn’t bother me a particle,’ Ermon Harp told the author.
By BERRY CRAIG
I saw on Instagram that the daughter of a 1937 sit-down striker at a Flint, Michigan, General Motors plant recently walked a picket line with United Auto Workers strikers at a GM facility in Swartz Creek, Michigan.
“86 years after the sit down strike, UAW members are standing up!” uaw.union posted.
I’m sure Western Kentucky natives Ermon and Lube Harp, both pioneer UAW rank-and-filers, would be standing up for their striking UAW brothers and sisters. Ermon was a sit-down striker in ’37, too, but at the Advance Stamping Co. in Detroit.