Supplies Flown into Republic Steel Plant During 1937 Strike Photographs   Save
Republic Steel, Warren Plant 1937 Strike Scrapbook
Description: Five photographs document supplies being flown in to workers operating the Republic Steel Corporation's Warren Plant during the 1937 "Little Steel" Strike. The photographs show the planes, pilots, and unloading activities on June 19 and 23, 1937. These 4.5" by 6.5" (11.43 by 16.5 cm) photographs are part of a scrapbook maintained by the Republic Steel Corporation documenting events during the strike. The scrapbook is labeled Miscellaneous Communications, Posters and Pictures Relating to the C.I.O. Strike of the Warren Plant of the Republic Steel Corporation, Summer 1937, Vol. III. In June 1936 the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers and the Committee for Industrial Organization (C.I.O.) agreed to a joint effort to organize the steel industry. This led to the formation of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (S.W.O.C.). Soon after the first representatives from the S.W.O.C. arrived in the Mahoning Valley to begin their organizing efforts. On March 26, 1937 the org View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1619_2587062_029
Subjects: Transportation; Business and Labor; Strikes; Steel industry; Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.); Labor unions; Airplanes; Air pilots
Places: Niles (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)