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America’s Last Violent Strike Has Been Wrongly Forgotten
Interview by Benjamin Y. Fong Ahmed White’s The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America (UC Press, 2016) makes the case for the significance of the Little Steel strike in the summer of 1937, where seventy-five thousand workers at four steel companies — Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, and Inland — initially went on strike, followed by more in the weeks and months that followed.
American Society of Criminology 2023
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Western History Association 2023
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The Wobblies and the Dream of One Big Union
In Butte, Mont., masked men woke up radical labor organizer Frank Little, dragged him from their car, and then hanged his lifeless body from a railroad bridge. In Bisbee, Ariz., the county sheriff organized a gun-wielding posse that packed more than 1,000 striking miners into boxcars and sent them nearly 200 miles into the New Mexico desert without food or water.
The Early IWW’s Unionism Was So Effective That Capitalists Decided It Had to Be Smashed
Interview by Peter Cole The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and its radical unionism was exploding in power and members. Yet less than ten years later, the IWW was all but smashed after a brutal campaign of repression and vigilantism. How did such a vibrant force of working-class power end up all but destroyed in the course of a decade?
Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People
Sam Mitrani Sam Mitrani is an Associate Professor of History at the College of DuPage. He earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2009 and his book The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894 is available from the University of Illinois Press.
Battle of the Overpass
Battle of the Overpass by The Walter P. Reuther Library on June 10th, 2015 Originally posted at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University. May 19, 2011. Written by Kristen Chinery, Reference Archivist. On May 26, 1937, nearly sixty UAW members from Local 174 arrived at Ford Motor Company’s River Rouge Plant to pass out leaflets, with city permit in hand, as part of a campaign to secure union representation for Rouge workers.
100 Years Ago, the First Red Scare Tried to Destroy the Left
On November 7, 1919, raiding parties in twelve US cities, composed of federal agents and a motley assortment of local police and American Legionnaires, descended on the offices of the Union of Russian Workers, an organization of leftist immigrants. The raids coincided with the second anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution and rounded up for arrest as many as one thousand people. Over the next two months, the onslaught continued, as leftists of various stripes were targeted all over the country.
We Need Broadband Internet for All
Nearly half of Americans do not have an internet connection that meets minimum broadband speeds. Moreover, a staggering number of poor people of color do not have home internet access of any kind. And, across the board, Americans are charged some of the highest prices for internet service in the developed world. These are all symptoms of a much larger, structural problem: the corporate capture of the pipes, wires, and other infrastructure that powers the internet.
The Steel Strike of 1937
The Memorial Day Massacre was only the beginning of the bloody “Little Steel Strike,” where unions and laborers protested the companies that refused to acknowledge their rights under The New Deal. By Ahmed White | July 2016 Forceful intervention on behalf of the steel companies who thought themselves above The New Deal resulted in the death of sixteen strikers and the injury or arrest of thousands more.
Memorial Day, 1937
Few people think of unions or the plight of the working class when they think of Memorial Day. But they should. On that day, eighty years ago, one of the most important events in American history unfolded, an event that transformed the course of labor rights in this country. In 1937, most of the country celebrated Memorial Day on May 30, which was a Sunday. In Chicago, the holiday could not have been better accommodated by the bright and warm weather.
Memorial Day, 1937
Few people think of unions or the plight of the working class when they think of Memorial Day. But they should. On that day, eighty years ago, one of the most important events in American history unfolded, an event that transformed the course of labor rights in this country. In 1937, most of the country celebrated Memorial Day on May 30, which was a Sunday. In Chicago, the holiday could not have been better accommodated by the bright and warm weather.
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