On January 7, 1936, across the street from Flint’s Chevrolet’s Plant 9 at West Kearsley and Asylum streets, police arrested two men after what The Flint Journal reported was a “pitched battle” there.
For more information, see Ron Fonger, “75 years ago, violence, police became factors in Sit-Down Strike of 1936-37”, MLive, January 7, 2011.