Youngstown Vindicator

• “STRIKERS HOLD GIRARD PLANT”

• “600 Sitdowners Demand Ohio Leather Company Recognize “Outside Union””

• “Workers are demanding recognition of the Boot, Shoe & Leather Workers Union which is affiliated with the CIO and the American Federation of Labor.”

• “They spent the time singing, dancing, and playing card around idle leather processing machinery”

• “Friends and relatives threw food and bedding over the high steel fence…during the afternoon and night”