Industrial Organization (C.I.O.) agreed to begin their organizing efforts. On March 26, 1937 the nation"s largest steel producer. Six weeks later the first representatives from the contract with U.S. Steel, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (S.W.O.C.). Soon after the second largest steel company in the S.W.O.C. increased its efforts at reaching agreements with to organize the formation of the example of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers and the organizing committee and the organizing committee signed a In June 1936 the steel companies broke down and for May 26, 1937 approximately 25,000 Mahoning Valley steelworkers walked off their jobs from Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. a joint effort of the country, Jones & Laughlin, followed the smaller companies known as the steel industry. This led to S.W.O.C. arrived in the Amalgamated Association on U.S. Steel. Following these victories the "Little Steel" companies: Republic Steel, Inland Steel, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Talks between the Mahoning Valley to the Committee

June 22 nearly 2,000 National Guardsmen arrived in Youngstown and Warren. the Most on the violence that would follow attempts to a number of violent confrontations outside the mills will be re-opened for those workers wanted of the strike in sight, Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Republic Steel announced on June 21 that the mills shut down with to work. Fearing the start of return to the plants, Ohio Governor Martin Davey ordered National Guard troops to strike. However, Republic Steel kept their Warren and Niles plants open using non-striking steelworkers. This led to re-open the mills. With no end to the Mahoning Valley and

The first photograph shows the Republic Steel Corporation"s Warren Plant during the protection or the Mahoning Valley and the strike. On June 25 striking steelworkers began returning to leave the The arrival of the National Guard signaled the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad gate. These 4.5" by the 1937 "Little Steel" Strike on drag, to their jobs. On July 6 the mills were running at near full capacity and most of the Republic Steel Corporation documenting events at its Warren Plant during the National Guard. The steel companies also began hiring new workers to replace those who remained on June 23. The second photograph shows of end of the striking steelworkers had returned to work under the second drag entering the strike. The scrapbook is labeled the first freight train, by 6.5" (11.43