Strike

Little Steel Strike

1937 · 39.83° N, 98.58° W

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When
1937
Kind
Strike
Coordinates
39.83° N, 98.58° W
Description
1937 labor dispute

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Little Steel strike

1937 labor strike throughout the American steel industry

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 mills belonging to the three companies, which employed 80,000 workers.

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