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Started by Towntalk, November 28, 2009, 11:23:36 AM

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iwasthere

i was my house after i started a remodeling project using cheap chinese workers. :-X

Rick Rowlands

Although the focus of the strike was Youngstown Sheet and Tube, interestingly none of the YS&T's property was damaged. The strikers burned down their own houses and businesses. 

Towntalk

#5
Right  :D


JHughes330

Oh, Oh!!! In 1916 a Youngstown Sheet and Tube Riot and sparked the riot and workers burned down the district!
"For All We Take We Must Pay, But The Price Is Cruel High..."  Rudyard Kipling

Towntalk

No. It was many years before that.

JHughes330

I believe it was the 1937 Little Steel Strike ?
"For All We Take We Must Pay, But The Price Is Cruel High..."  Rudyard Kipling

Towntalk

An event took place that saw much of East Youngstown's (Campbell) business district burnt to the ground.

Q. 1 What was that event?

Q. 2 When did this event take place?