The Remington Rand strike: 1936
The spring flood was only the start of Middletown’s 1936 calamities. No sooner had East Side residents returned to their residences, thrown out spoiled belongings, and resumed work than the Remington Rand Corporation forced its 1,350 Middletown machinists to strike. —”Middletown’s Barons and the End of the WASP Ascendancy,” an unpublished essay by Ron Schatz