Little Steel Strike, U.S., 1937
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Name (Hebrew)
שביתת הפלדה הקטנה, ארצות הברית, 1937
Name (Latin)
Little Steel Strike, U.S., 1937
Name (Arabic)
إضراب عمال الصلب الصغيرة، الولايات المتحدة، 1937
Other forms of name
Steel Strike, U.S., 1937
See Also From tracing topical name
Strikes and lockouts Steel industry United States
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Q17089178
Library of congress:
sh 98006629
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: The Chicago Memorial Day incident, 1971:p. 2 at end (encounter between strikers of the Republic Steel Corporation in Chicago and their sympathizers and the Chicago Police Dept. on Memorial Day, May 30, 1937)
- Illinois Labor History Society WWW site, Oct. 8, 1998("Little Steel Strike" of 1937)
- Labor Conflict in the U.S.: encyc., 1990:p. 502 (Steel Strike of 1937: The Little Steel Strike was among the most important of the Great Depression era. The strike pitted one of the new industrial unions of the CIO- the Steel Workers Organizing Committee - against several anti-union steel companies, collectively named "Little Steel" to distinguish them from the dominant company of the industry, United States Steel Corp.)
- Nelson, D. Labor battleground, c1996:p. 95 (On Mar. 2, 1937, the United States Steel Corporation shocked the country and the rest of the industry by signing a contract with the SWOC. Now that there was a victory in 'Big Steel' the SWOC was energized to organize 'Little Steel' - five independent steel companies consisting of Republic, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, Inland, Bethlehem, and Weirton. A strike against 'Little Steel' was called for May 26 at 11 p.m.) p. 108 (The violence and anti-union feelings took its toll and the strike was called off in Sept. 1937)