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The Memorial Day Massacre and the Movement for Industrial Democracy
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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Forgotten Memorials
- One: Fire, Steel, and the Coming Crisis: The 1920s in Chicago and America
- Two: Out of Despair
- Three: Hammer and Tong: The Struggle for Steel
- Four: Loading the Charge: The Steelworkers Organize
- Five: Irresistible Forces: Conflict at Republic Steel
- Six: âTrouble Is Certain to Followâ
- Seven: A Sunday to Remember
- Eight: Counterrevolution: The Campaign against Industrial Democracy
- Nine: âA Major Breakdown of Democratic Governmentâ
- Ten: âRuthlessness and Disregard for the Lawâ: After the Massacre
- Eleven: âThe Day Is ComingâŚâ
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index