Memorial Day Massacre Commemoration

This video documents a commemoration held at the Local 1033 union hall on the East Side in 2006. The event commemorated the Memorial Day Massacre which occurred during the nation-wide Little Steel Strike of 1937. During that strike, ten strike supporters at the Republic mill in Southeast Chicago were killed by city police and nearly a hundred wounded. Four of the ten unionists killed that day were fellow “Little Steel” strikers from Local 1010 in neighboring Northwest Indiana. This video clip from 2006 shows a member of the “Women of Steel” group from Local 1010 singing an old labor mining song called “Which Side Are You On?”