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Hamburg Marker — bottom right images
Photographer: Hamburg Historical Society
Caption: Hamburg Marker — bottom right images
Additional Description: During World War II, the Brown-McLaren Manufacturing Company hired women to build bomb firing pins and aircraft engine parts for Packard, Ford, Studebaker and Pratt & Whitney. After the war, plant workers tried to unionize for collective bargaining and higher wages. They did not succeed. Blaming an "unfavorable political, tax and labor climate," the company closed in 1958.
Submitted: July 11, 2022, by Joel Seewald of Madison Heights, Michigan.
Database Locator Identification Number: p666491
File Size: 2.866 Megabytes

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