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Title
Delco
Remy
Employee's
Association
Correspondence
Subject
Business and Labor
Strikes
Steel industry
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Labor unions
Arms & armament
Place
Niles (Ohio)
Warren (Ohio)
Trumbull County (Ohio)
Anderson (Indiana)
Description
Robert
Barber
,
General
Secretary
of the
Delco
Remy
Employee's
Association
(Anderson
,
Indiana)
sent
this
letter
of
support
to the "
Loyal
Employee's
,
Republic
Steel
Co.
" on
June
14
,
1937
during
the "
Little
Steel
"
Strike
. In
it
Barber
writes
of the
goals
of the
C.I.O
and
writes
that "
we
do
not
marvel
so
much
at the
great
efforts
they are
making
to
attain
this
end
, but
we
certainly
cannot
understand
the
lack
of
intelligence
being
displayed
by
hungry
strikers
in
doing
battle
to
forward
the
selfish
aims
of the
C.I.O
.
dictators...we
have
done
battle
with the
C.I.O
. in
Anderson...it
is
our
intention
to
fight
this
un-American
labor
system...so
accept
this
letter
as a
compliment
to
your
courage
, and
hold
out
in
your
determination
for
public
opinion
is
with
you
and
public
opinion
will
beat
the
C.I.O.
" The
letter
was
posted
on the
bulletin
board
at the
Republic
Plant
at
10:00
am
June
18
,
1937
. The
letter
measures
8.4
" by
11
"
(21.3
by
28
cm)
and
is
part
of a
scrapbook
maintained
by the
Republic
Steel
Corporation
documenting
events
at its
Warren
Plant
during
the
1937
"
Little
Steel
"
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
organizing
committee
signed
a
contract
with
U.S
.
Steel
, the
nation's
largest
steel
producer
.
Six
weeks
later
the
second
largest
steel
company
in the
country
,
Jones
&
Laughlin
,
followed
the
example
of
U.S
.
Steel
.
Following
these
victories
the
S.W.O.C
.
increased
its
efforts
at
reaching
agreements
with the
smaller
companies
known
as the "
Little
Steel
"
companies
:
Republic
Steel
,
Inland
Steel
, and
Youngstown
Sheet
and
Tube
.
Talks
between
the
organizing
committee
and the
steel
companies
broke
down
and on
May
26
,
1937
approximately
25,000
Mahoning
Valley
steelworkers
walked
off
their
jobs
from
Republic
Steel
and
Youngstown
Sheet
and
Tube
.
Most
of the
mills
shut
down
with the
start
of the
strike
.
However
,
Republic
Steel
kept
their
Warren
and
Niles
plants
open
using
non-striking
steelworkers
. This
led
to a
number
of
violent
confrontations
outside
the
mills
. With
no
end
to the
strike
in
sight
,
Youngstown
Sheet
and
Tube
and
Republic
Steel
announced
on
June
21
that the
mills
will be
re-opened
for those
workers
wanted
to
return
to
work
.
Fearing
the
violence
that would
follow
attempts
to
re-open
the
plants
,
Ohio
Governor
Martin
Davey
ordered
National
Guard
troops
to the
Mahoning
Valley
and on
June
22
nearly
2,000
National
Guardsmen
arrived
in
Youngstown
and
Warren
.
Creator
Barber, Robert
Date of Original
June
14
,
1937
Collection
Republic
Steel
,
Warren
Plant
1937
Strike
Scrapbook
Source
Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts)
YHC MSS0017
Submitting Institution
Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor
Rights
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http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
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