Memorial Day 1937
date: label: date made
content: 1962
label: Associated Date
content: 1937
name: label: affiliated union
content: United Auto Workers
label: maker
content: United Auto Workers
notes: label: Description
content: On Memorial Day, May 30, 1937, Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the CIO called a strike. Sympathizers marched across an open field to the Republic Steel Mill. Chicago police blocked their path. Stating they felt threatened by the protestors the police fired into the crowd killing ten and wounding others.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
label: associated place
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
topic: label: general subject association
content: labor issues
label: general subject association
content: Labor Unions
label: general subject association
content: Police Brutality
label: general subject association
content: Memorial Day
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
label: See more items in
content: Princeton Posters
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Smithsonian
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0701.25
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0701.25
label: accession number
content: 1988.0701
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Poster
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 in x 19 in; 55.88 cm x 48.26 cm