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Mass meeting of Cleveland steel workers in Brookside Park during strike, October 1, 1919. The United States strike wave of 1919 was a succession of extensive labor strikes following World War I that unfolded across various American industries, involving more than four million American workers.
Steel Strike 3 [138] "Little Steel" strike: The local police force opened fire on strikers, killing 3. 1937 Cleveland, OH Steel Strike 1 or 2 Other killings occurred during the "Little Steel" strike. [138] September 9, 1938 Hatboro, PA Garment Strike 1
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
The data is considered likely un-comprehensive but still used the same definition of strikes as later periods. For this era, all strikes with more than six workers or less than one day were excluded. [3]: 2–3, 36 No concrete data was collected for the amount of strikes from 1906 to 1913 federally. [3]: 2-3, (8-9 in pdf)
The Great Steel Strike of 1919 was an attempt by the American Federation of Labor to organize the leading company, United States Steel, in the American steel industry. The AFL formed a coalition of 24 unions, all of which had grown rapidly during World War I.
Cleveland Cliffs made an unsolicited $8.3 billion cash and stock offer for US Steel last year that was supported by the union, but it was rejected by the company. The nation’s automakers ...
The Little Steel strike was a 1937 labor strike by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and its branch the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), against a number of smaller steel producing companies, principally Republic Steel, Inland Steel, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. The strike affected a total of thirty different ...
Cleveland-Cliffs announced earlier Sunday that it had made an offer valuing the U.S. Steel at $7.3 billion, based on $17.50 a share in cash and 1.023 shares of Cliffs stock.