Monday, March 31, 2008 Zietlow and Pope on the 1934 Toledo Auto-
Lite Strike as Popular Constitutionalism Posted by Mary L.
Dudziak The Auto-Lite Strike and the Fight Against Wage Slavery
is a new article on SSRN by Rebecca E. Zietlow, University of
Toledo College of Law and James Gray Pope, Rutgers Law School,
Newark. It appeared in the University of Toledo Law Review
(2007). Here's the abstract: In April, 1934, workers at the
Auto-Lite plant went on strike, demanding that their employer
recognize their union and engage in collective bargaining with
them. Despite the ill effects of the Depression on Toledo and an
unemployment rate of over 50%, workers at the Auto-Lite
transmission plant risked their jobs and the possibility of
employment at other factories for what they believed were
fundamental rights - the rights to organize into a union, engage
in collective bargaining, and strike. With help from the Toledo
Central Labor Union and the AWP, the Auto-Lite workers resisted
an injunction and enforced their rig