FROM THE ARCHIVES - Chicago Steel and the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre

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One from the archives for your Memorial Day weekend listening. Enjoy.

It was an industry that at one time employed 700,000 workers, including 200,000 here in the Chicago area. Italians, Poles, Mexicans, African Americans, and others willing to put in a long and sometimes dangerous day’s work found good pay and a career working at the steel mills. Then gradually, it went away… but not before one fateful Memorial Day protest turned deadly.

YouTube Short: Chicago's U.S. Steel South Works and Steelworker's Park (Then and Now)
https://youtu.be/20dc56meKG8
PBS: Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried https://www.pbs.org/video/memorial-day-massacre-workers-die-film-buried-3hzo89/

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1937 Chicago Steel Strike: Blood On The Prairie, The by John F. Hogan
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Blood On Steel: Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937 by Michael Dennis
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Steelworker's Park:
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Chicago Lakeside: Imagine (with Bill Kurtis)
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Illinois Labor History Society Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q3RUGLfFv0
Mollie West Describes the Memorial Day Massacre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sO1siAQlWA&t=9s

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