Today in Labor History January 6, 1916: 8,000 workers called a strike at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube plant. On January 7, their wives and family members joined them on the picket line. Company guards attacked the crowd with tear gas bombs and live fire, killing three strikers and wounding 25 others.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1937 in #Youngstown, OH, police were angry women came to support the #strike, part of the #LittleSteelStrike, and assaulted women & children. When men ran to protect them, #police opened fire, killing 16, injuring 300, in the second massacre of the strike.