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Unions were important factors in the industrial history of Southeast Chicago. They were very much involved in the movement to create industrial unions which eventually resulted in the successful creation of the United Steel Workers of America. One of the most important events in American labor history, the Memorial Day Massacre, occurred in this area, at Republic Steel on Memorial Day, May 30, 1937.
 


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