The Chicago star., May 31, 1947, Image 1

About The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948

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VoL 2. No. 22
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THE sharp crack of gun fire, the blinding
haze of tear gas, the brutal thud of
police clubs on the heads of workers striking
for a living wage—that was the bloody Repub
lic Steel Massacre of Memorial Day 1937, in
which 10 were killed and more than 100 injured.
Most were shot in the back, Senate investiga
Chicago, May 31, 1947
tors learned, as police charged a peaceful throng
of men, women, and children on South Side
prairie.
Ten years late, as widows, orphans, and
fellow workers pay tribute to casualties of mas
sacre, unionists and other progressives remem
ber:
Fast tells story of
Memorial Day, 1937
S Howard Fast, noted American His
torian and novelist, dramatically re
ports what happened here ten years
ago outside Republic Steel Co.
See Page 7
It DID happen here! It can happen again.
And thousands write letters to President
Truman, demanding veto of Taft-Hartley slave
labor bill, which would bring return of mas
sacres like the Memorial Day murders pictured
here.