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Republic Steel Strike Riot Newsreel Footage is a 1937 newsreel of the strike at Republic Steel on Memorial Day, May 30, 1937, which escalated into a massacre when Chicago police fired on protestors (1937 Memorial Day massacre). Ten protesters were killed by the police and thirty others suffered gunshot wounds.
Alfred Causey, 43, Chicago, Illinois (USW Local 1010) Leo Francisco, 17, Chicago, Illinois (Western Union) (died as a result of his injuries June 15, 1937) Earl Handley, 37, East Chicago, Indiana (USW Local 1010) Otis Jones, 33, Lincoln, Illinois (USW Local 1033) (died as a result of his injuries June 8, 1937)
Pullman Strike - Began on May 11, 1894, after workers for the Pullman Company began strike after a reduction in wages. The strike spread nationwide and shut down most railroad traffic west of Detroit. The strike lasted several months and 30 strikers were killed in various riots and clashes with government forces. 30 57
R+L Carriers is a privately owned American freightshipping company based in Wilmington, Ohio, which grew over the course of 50 years from one truck to a fleet of 21,000 tractors and trailers. [1] The company serves all 48 contiguous American states plus Canada , Puerto Rico , the U.S. Virgin Islands , and the Dominican Republic .
Chicago and the Labor Movement: Metropolitan Unionism in the 1930's (U of Illinois Press, 1961), strong on clothing, teamsters, steel, meat packing. online; Roscigno, Vincent J. The voice of southern labor: radio, music, and textile strikes, 1929-1934 (2004) online; Taft, Philip. The AF of L. from the Death of Gompers to the Merger (Harper ...
Union activists will gather Saturday in the Wabun Picnic Area of Minnehaha Regional Park to commemorate the 1934 Minneapolis Truckers Strike, a bloody, three-month clash between the Teamsters ...
Police arrested Brandon Olsen, 44, on charges of arson, robbery and burglary, saying he fled the scene of a car crash shortly after 1 a.m., broke into the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center in ...
Actors joined writers on the picket lines for the first dual strike in more than 60 years. Work on new seasons of shows like “Abbott Elementary” and shooting on films like “Deadpool 3 ...