 Several participants in the strike, including Charles I. Krause, went on to greater prominence within the union.Other notable participants in the sit-down strike were future D-Day hero and Greco-Roman wrestling champion Dean Rockwell, labor leader and future UAW president Walter Reuther, and the uncle of documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, whose debut feature "Roger & Me" contains a clip from the strike.In the next year, UAW membership grew from 30,000 to 500,000 members.