"C.I.O. ORGANIZERS SIGN STEEL WORKERS!
STRUTHERS, OHIO - The steel strike became a weekend siege today, with no hope of peace in sight until after Monday holiday. With production almost stopped at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and the Inland Steel Co. plants, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee concentrated their forced on Republic Steel Corporation plants still operating.
Above photo shows C.I.O.-S.W.O.C. organizers signing up steel workers of the Struthers, Ohio plant of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.
5/28/37"
STRUTHERS, OHIO - The steel strike became a weekend siege today, with no hope of peace in sight until after Monday holiday. With production almost stopped at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and the Inland Steel Co. plants, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee concentrated their forced on Republic Steel Corporation plants still operating.
Above photo shows C.I.O.-S.W.O.C. organizers signing up steel workers of the Struthers, Ohio plant of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.
5/28/37"
A Communist Party member, Gus Hall, earned his stripes as a SWOC organizer on this strike.
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