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Flint, Mich., 18 December 1945. Only 25 to 30 pickets were on duty this morning when the police, under the leadership of Capt. Gus Hawkins, drove parallel lines through the midst of the strikers. About 500 white collar workers went into the plant through the police corridor. There was no disorder, the workers giving way as they hissed and booed the salaried and clerical personnel of the plant. Then the police withdrew to permit an orderly resumption of orderly picketing. Declaring that he would have 10,000 men on hand in the morning, Jack F. Holt, regional director of the U. A. W., said: ‘We'll see if they can get through 10,000 men.'
The best chance to organize the white collar people, said the expert organizer with 80 years practical experience, is to get them where they see how the workers have made gains, and how powerful the workers are when they mass pickets and go on strike. In my long experience wherever there's strong wage worker unions they'll all come into the union in those places. . .