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Many of the country's largest corporations entered into contracts with CIO member unions, effectively recognizing the unions' authority to bargain on behalf of the companies' workforces. Still, there were others who continued to resist, including Republic Steel. In 1937 the Steel Workers Organizing Committee ordered a work stoppage and posted pickets around many of Republic's mills. At one in south Chicago, the picketing was stopped by the police. A protest was organized and generated a march on the plant's main gate, where waiting police confronted the crowd and, in the melee that followed, killed ten of the demonstrators. Despite the outcry that followed, public reaction to labor's renewed militancy, its use of the sitdown strike to deprive company owners of their property, and its defiance of the law left many Americans with ambivalent feelings respecting labor's methods. When the Supreme Court eventually concluded...
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