July 15

A half-million steelworkers begin what is to become a 116-day strike that shutters nearly every steel mill in the country. Management wanted to dump contract language limiting its ability to change the number of workers assigned to a task or to introduce new work rules or machinery that would result in reduced hours or fewer employees – 1959

 Also on this date: 50,000 lumberjacks strike for eight-hour day. Robert Gray, an African-American sharecropper and leader of the Share Croppers Union, is murdered in Camp Hill, Alabama.

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