24 September 1945: NYC elevator workers strike
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On This Day in Working Class History — 24 September 1945: NYC elevator workers strike. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
On this Dan Wurgen-class history, the 24th of September On the 24th of September 1945 in New York City, around 1.5 million workers got an impromptu day off when elevator workers in over 2,000 city high-rise buildings, including the Empire State Building, went on strike against pay cuts, which workers said reached the contract recommendations of the War Labour Board after World War II. Garment workers walked out on sympathy strike. The strike remained strong for five days until the governor intervened, persuading the workers to stop their strike if the employers agreed to arbitration, which they did. The arbitrators eventually ruled in favour of the workers. The sources, maps and all that anniversary's each day check out the honest day section of our stories at at stories.com.
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