History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1527 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Labour Turns Militant
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The idea
In nineteen thirty-four about one and a half million workers struck, Digital History records, a third of them demanding union recognition.
In practice
Half a million textile workers walking out across twenty states in the largest strike the country had seen.
Where people slip
Police shot sixty-seven striking Teamsters in Minneapolis. The strikes, Digital History says, forced the federal government into labour relations.
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