The Memorial Day Massacre Of 1937

Memorial Day Massacre of 1937

Ten demonstrators were killed by police bullets during the "Little Steel Strike" of 1937. When several smaller steelmakers, including Republic Steel, refused to follow the lead of U.S. Steel (Big Steel) by signing a union contract, a strike was called by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).

As a show of support, hundreds of SWOC sympathizers from all around Chicago gathered on Memorial Day at Sam's Place, where the SWOC had its strike headquarters. After a round of speeches, the crowd began a march across the prairie and toward the Republic Steel mill. They were stopped midway by a formation of Chicago police. While demonstrators in front were arguing for their right to proceed, police fired into the crowd and pursued the people as they fled. Mollie West, a Typographical Union Local 16 member and a youthful demonstrator at the time, still recalls the command addressed to her: "Get off the field, or I'll put a bullet in your back."

For a full account of the massacre click here:
http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/republic.htm

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What does that "illegal code" mean I found 3 pictures doing a google search but I could only post 2 of them here.

Big business goes after little countries instead of the little people aka working class.

the American spirit proved a little too difficult to contain given the resiliency of their spirit after massacres such as this, Bloody Thursday now known as Labor Day, and the coal field battles in West Virginia.

When you really think of these sleazy Big business brokers have only moved their operations to less democratic countries they feel they can exploit. Here in America they only raid our retirement funds like the Enron failure