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I went to this event with Granite City soar folks Is was impressed
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The Republic Steel mill in south Chicago is sacred ground for the American labor movement. The mill is empty and silent now, the fields around it a vacant lot, but the land has been hallowed by the blood spilled in the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937, when police fired on a peaceful picket line, killing 10 and wounding dozens of others.
Seventy-five years later, on May 26, across the street from Republic Steel, labor leaders, academics, rank-and-file activists and elected officials gathered at a commemoration and rally organized by the United Steelworkers under the title, "Fighting for Workers' Rights: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow."
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