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News clippings : sit down strikes
Friday, December 31, 1937
A2001-074
AF/162979
News clippings regarding sit down strikes : sit down strike ends in arrests, sit down demonstration by members of the Oregon Workers' alliance in the social service officers of the Multnomah county relief commission in the Panama building ; relief sit strikers get hearing ; two congressmen warn against the dangers of sit down strikes ; sit down is not only unlawful, it is law - defying. Also includes news clippings regarding : Harold Pritchet to come to Coos Bay to meet with local members of the lumber and sawmill worker's union ; American youth congress is another organization of American students which denies being affiliated with the Communist party, but which Gil Greee, head of the Young Communist league, largely directs ; Paris paralyzed by mass strike Organization : Oregonian ; Oregon Journal People : Patrick, W. K. ; Phillips, C. A. ; Spring, Harold C. ; Seybert, Ella ; Shank, Minnie ; Ross, Mark ; Ross, Paul ; Mark, Alvin ; Pritchett, Harold ; Madden Percy M. ; Green, Gil ; Johnson, Hira W. ; Lewis, Hamilton J. ; Perkins, Frances Key Words : labor ; union ; strike ; sit down strike ; lumber ; woodworker ; youth ; student ; Communist ; Communist Party ; relief
