The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-08-19
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| years ago Hdu the pIcocli
Civil Rights Bill introduced
in the Michigan Legislature,
and organized a lobby for
its passage. the principal OBJ
lection in the Legislature to
its passage was offered by
members from the Upper
Peninsula where there are
few Negroes. They object
ed to the bill because they
did not want Indians to eat
in the restaurants with them.
1t is the Upper Peninsula
in which old Father Mar
quette worked and even to-
day it suggests hardship and
heroism. 1t is the Lower Pen
insulS however where Cadil-
lac and his soldiers played
their part. and it is this sec
ton of the state which max
cs Michigan today famous as
the great capitol motordom.
Here we find the great
agricultural region of the
state with its crops Of way
ing corn. wheat. oats, rye,
barley. buckwheat and hay;
with its potato and sugar
beet fields; its beans. peas.
and famous celery, and
along Lake Michigan. its
vineyards and fruit orch
ards. Quite number of
these farms are owned by
colorcd people,-old resi-
dents of the state. II is in
this region too that we find
stock and dairy farms and
sheep herds.
In the Lower Peninsula we
find the principal cities of
the state and consequently
most of its educational in
stitutions. among which is
the famous State University.
Here abound foundries. iron
and steel mills, grist and salt
mills. machine shops, furni-
ture factories; the manufact-
uring Of wagons and farm
implements. and a 6 r @ a t
multitude Of automobile fac
tories and plants for auto
mobile accessories.
Grand Rapids suggest the
idea Of furniture; Battle
Greek that of breakfast food
and sanatoria; Kalamazoo,
succulent celery; Port HUI
ron. steel mills and shipping:
Saginaw. salt and lumber;
and Jackson Lansing. Pom
tiac. Flint and Detroit, the
great automobile industry,
for in these places more cars
are made than anywhere else
in the country.
Detroit is the dynamic
city Of Michigan and it domi-
mates the whole state. 1t is
a name TO coniure with; the
largest growing great city
in the Union. bursting out
of its clothing. with a
polygot population Of over
a million souls. II has been
so busy making money that
it has never had time to stop
TO find itself.
Just as Detroit dominates
the state. so is it dominated
in the mind of the world by
the remarkable figure of
Henry Ford, whose genius
for mass production of a
cheap car has enabled him to
build up the biggest motor
factory in the world, cover
ing miles of ground.
In his Detroit plant are
employed around 5000 Ne
groes, mostly doing heavy
work. A considerable group
however do skilled a n d
semi-skilled work. and there
is a Negro foreman, several
Negro clerks, and one Ne
gro. Glenn Cochran. a young
graduate of the University
of Michigan, who is employ
ed in the experimental de-
partment as an electrical en-
glneer. Detroit in 1919 had
PIG manufacturing estab-
llShmentS with about l76.-
600 workers. Ford employs
over $4,000 or nearly one
third of all the city's factory
workers.
Detroit h developed
other notable fgures-the
Dodge brothers, the Le-
lands-father and o n:
Chalmers, Chrysler, WHY'S.
Couzins, Lee, Norval Haw-
kins, among others.