The Memorial Day Massacre and the movement for industrial democracy

By Dennis, Michael

Subjects: Little Steel Strike, U.S., 1937, Strikes and lockouts, steel industry, Police brutality, Police, illinois, chicago, Steel industry, Chicago (ill.), history, Strikes and lockouts, Demonstrations, History, Memorial Day Massacre, Chicago, Ill., 1937, American alliance for labor and democracy

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"--