1937 Levinson 1938

Edward Levinson Labor on the March, ILR Press: Ithaca, NY, 1995 (1938), pp. 172, 173, 1938, 1937, 1936

     "The January [1936] sit-downs, involving 43,910 workers, most of them in the automobile industry . . .

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     "Several hundred strikers left the plant of the Douglas Aircraft Corporation at Santa Monica, California [1937], on a promise that their grievances would be heard at once by the National Labor Relations Board. They walked out into the arms of deputy sheriffs, who arrested them for forcible entry . . . "

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