Union Busting in the Tri-State: The Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri Metal Workers' Strike of 1935
Description
Throughout the 1920s and 30s, the Tri-State Mining District of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri was the world's leading producer of lead and zinc concentrates. Traditionally, the Tri-State had been a nonunion district, but in the early 1930s the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers organized seven locals there. Unable to gain recognition from the mining and milling companies as the exclusive bargaining agent for the district workers, union officials called a strike in May 1935, a strike that completely shut down operations and left thousands of men unemployed in the mid...
ISBN(s)
0806120126, 9780806120126
