1941 Press Photo New York CIO workers on strike at Kearney NJ near NYC

Some of the thousands of CIO members who today staged a mass demonstration before the yards of the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company are shown as they paraded outside the plant. Hundreds of sympathy strikers joined with members of Local 16 of the Marine and Shipbuilding Workers CIO Union which called the strike of 16,000 workers which has tied up the yards for 12 days Photo measures 9 x 7.25 inches. Photo is dated 08-18-1941.

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