Union Riots  7 March 1932 Police kill striking workers at Ford's Dearborn, Michigan plant.   1934 The Electric Auto-Lite Strike. In Toledo, OH, two strikers were killed and over  two hundred wounded by National Guardsmen. Some 1300 National Guard troops,  including included eight rifle companies and three machine gun companies, were called in to disperse the protestors.     1 September - 22 September 1934 A strike in Woonsocket, RI, part of a national movement to obtain a minimum wage for textile workers,  resulted in the deaths of three workers. Over 420,000 workers ultimately went on strike.  (This is around the number of people that would have been striking, faced against armed  Federal resistance, in most industrial strikes). 11 February 1937 General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers union following a sit-down strike. 9 November 1935 26 May 1937 The 'Battle of the Overpass'. Walter Reuther and a group of UAW supporters,  fresh from having organized GM and Chrysler,  attempting to distribute leaflets at Gate 4 of the Ford Motor Company's River Rouge plant,  and were beaten up (together with bystanders) by Ford Service Department guards. 30 May 1937 Police killed 10 and wounded 30 during the "Memorial Day Massacre" at the Republic Steel plant in Chicago. 25 June 1938 The Wages and Hours (later Fair Labor Standards) Act is passed, banning child labor  and setting the 40-hour work week. The Act went into effect in October 1940,  and was upheld in the Supreme Court on 3 February 1941. 27 February 1939 The Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes are illegal. African box instrument: was most likely a dulcimer or cigar box guitar, but could have been a thumb piano Nerdy guy telling you about the instrument China Grove is in North Carolina http://www.chinagrovenc.gov/ I couldn't find a guy playing trombone with his feet but here's a guy playing guitar! Guy Playing Guitar with Feet!!! WHoa!!!! Diviner: a. Having the nature of or being a deity. Chinese zombie music: most likely a me for strange, maybe tranclikl or walking, marching music.  But definitely anything strange Money: Billie Holiday made 75$ a week, weather touring or playing in Harlem, that is about 1,000$ today.  but keep in mind Billie Holiday was a famous musician,  so for black women she would have made the most out of all her peers;  other could expect substantially  less. Ina Ray Hutton was arguably the only prominent leader of the big band era. She was a voluptuous white women.  WWII draft:      In 1940 Roosevelt created the first peace time draft. All men, 21 to 45 were required to sign up.  They were chosen through lottery, and had to serve 12 months.  When WWII began the age limit was changed to 18 to 65--though only 18-45 were required to serve,  those 45-65 still had to register. The draft time was extended to 21 months in early summer 1941.  During WWII the time was extended to two years after the end of the war;  thus draftees had to serve the entire length of the war and then some.  All told, about 10,000,000 Americans were drafted between 1940 and 1947 Mom's Mably    Moms Mably was a black stand up comedian and pioneer of the "Chitin' Circuit" of black vaudeville.  The chitin circuit was a circuit of theaters and other venues were blacks could perform in the segregated American world.  She performed mostly in Harlem at the Apollo, making 10,000 a week at her height.  (Compare that to Billie Holiday, who made 75$ a week).  She was an open lesbian, even during the 1930s.  She was famous for obscene language and talking about sex.  Her favorite persona was that of a crazy old raggedy women chasing young boys.