The sit-down strike went on for a couple of relatively quiet weeks. Then on January 11, 1937, the guards at Fisher Body Plant No. 2 cut off the strikers’ access to their food supply—and then, with guns and tear gas, attempted to force them to leave. They refused and fought back, throwing two-pound hinges at the plant guards and drenching the Flint police with water from firehoses. The event was later called the “Battle of the Running Bulls.”
