Workers strike Youngstown steel mill on January 6, 1914.

  • By Greg Lange
  • Posted 5/09/1999
  • HistoryLink.org Essay 1103
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On January 6, 1914, 200 members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers strike the Youngstown steel mill for union recognition. The steel mill, located between West Seattle and the Duwamish River, is owned by the Pacific Coast Steel Company,

On February 1, 1914, the strikers gave up and returned to work.


Sources:

[Washington State] Bureau of Labor, Ninth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Factory Inspection 1913-1914 (Olympia: Frank M. Lamborn, Public Printer, 1914), 140.


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