“Unemployed Workers occupy St Louis city hall, April 1936, to protest relief cut-offs. Integrated groups of workers fought to keep the city from cutting families from needed assistance. The goal of the American Workers Union, which organized the sit-in, was to unite unemployed and employed workers in order to keep the unemployed from use as a source of strikebreakers. Occupying relief stations and other seats of power had become a well-honed practice, and connected to the struggle for rights for the jobless.
Workers hosted sit-ins in relief offices on a regular basis. In April 1936, for instance, a racially integrated group of women and men, mostly members of the AWU, took over the city’s Aldermanic Chambers, refusing to leave until the city agreed to withdraw the threat to cut off relief to fifteen thousand families.”
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