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SWOC
(redirected from Steel Workers Organizing Committee)

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SWOCSteel Workers Organizing Committee (later became United Steelworkers of America CIO)
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Steel and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) had been negotiating for months over a 10 cents per hour raise.
Officially, the Steelworkers began in Cleveland on May 22, 1942, but the convention delegates acknowledged that their spiritual origins, as embodied in the Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the 1930's, emerged from the smoke and ashes of the Homestead Steel Strike of 1892.
Free speech and assembly rights were severely curtailed during the period between the Battle of Homestead, when workers' rights were curtailed, and the successful organization of the Homestead mill by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) in 1937, when these rights were restored.
 
 
 
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