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1930s and the record around it
South Bend's labor violence, on the court and press record, is one famous occupation and a long quiet: The city's labor landmark is the Bendix sit-down strike of November 1936 — UAW Local 9's occupation of the Bendix plant, the first sit-down strike in the young union's history — whose telling, its court sequel and its place in the Bendix record belong to the Businesses section and are cross-referenced here. Beyond it, this section states its finding plainly: no second episode of labor violence in South Bend rises to a documented entry in the court and press record consulted for this section — no injunction battle, no strike shooting, no dynamiting stands in the record at the size the Bendix strike sets. The city's great organizing decades were fought at the hiring gate, in the NLRB elections and in the contracts, and its strike history is told where it happened, in Businesses, the Studebaker section and Black History's account of the industrial color line. A negative at survey depth is a finding, not an omission, and it is printed as one.
Sources:
- The Businesses section of this history — the Bendix sit-down of November 1936 (UAW Local 9; the UAW's first sit-down), cross-referenced; the negative finding is this section's own, from the court and press record consulted for this section.