April - 2016

BOOK TALK, TATTERED COVER, DENVER, COLORADO

Ahmed White Discusses THE LAST GREAT STRIKE at one of the Nation's Preeminent Bookstores Professor Ahmed White, who was recently named...

In Historic Move, Supreme Court Upholds Wagner Act, Validates New Deal On April 12, 1937, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the...

Companies Use Violence to Undermine Union By April 1937, most of the workers at Little Steel’s mills in the Calumet region of Indiana and...

STEEL WORKERS REBUFFED: COMPANIES REFUSE 8-HOUR WORKDAY On March 30, 1937, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee asked Little Steel—four...

Big Steel Signs Historic Agreement, Guarantees Steelworkers Basic Rights Seventy-nine years ago, in early March, 1937, U.S. Steel...

Blacks Support Unions in Indiana Steel Mill In late January 1937, black ministers pledged 100% cooperation with union organizing efforts...

Big Steel Signals that it Might Allow Workers to Unionize On January 9, 1937, U.S. Steel’s chairman and director, Myron Taylor, initiated...

Is It a Fair Fight When You Can't Even Discuss the Possibility of Unions? In January 1937, Republic Steel sent agents to follow...

As the Prospect of a Strike Becomes More Likely, the Companies Prepare for War Between January 1, 1937 and May 5, 1937, the sheriff of...