ABSTRACT
In the fall of 1926 the American Federation of Labor held its annual Convention in Detroit. In seven years, Mr. Green’s “Family of Labor” had dwindled to a modest two-thirds of its post-war figure of four millions. The Convention assembled in the capital of the automobile industry of the United States; but it was not the capital of unionism. Auto workers claiming membership in the A. F. of L. numbered but a few hundred. Detroit and the automobile industry were not only non-union; they were militantly anti-union.
