An edition of The Memorial Day Massacre and the movement for industrial democracy (2010)
The Memorial Day Massacre and the movement for industrial democracy
By Dennis, Michael
Publish Date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Language
eng
Pages
278
Description:
"This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrators and beat more than one hundred others as they tried to form a mass picket line at the Republic Steel Plant in South Chicago"--
subjects: Little Steel Strike, U.S., 1937, Steel industry, Strikes and lockouts, Police brutality, Memorial Day Massacre, Chicago, Ill., 1937, Demonstrations, History, American alliance for labor and democracy, Strikes and lockouts, steel industry, Police, illinois, chicago, Chicago (ill.), history
Times: 20th century