A cop trying to pin down a striker during the RCA Victor (Consumer electronics company) strike at Camden, New Jersey, USA, 2 July 1936.
A cop trying to pin down a striker during the RCA Victor (Consumer electronics company) strike at Camden, New Jersey, USA, 2 July 1936.
Was unable to find a historical retelling of events but by looking at some articles from the time I was able to piece some things together from Time and the New York Post. It appears the main demands by the strikers was an abolition of RCA's company union (a worker organization which is dominated or unduly influenced by an employer, and is therefore not an independent trade union), and a 20% wage increase.
Things started off peacefully with the strikers picketing the plant and the strikers and the RCA trying to drown out each other's music that was being played on loudspeaker. RCA then started to employ strikebreakers (scabs) and then things appeared to have escalated from there. With strikers accused of “jabbing girl employees with pins” and hurling eggs filled with paint and the scabs were accused of throwing red pepper, hot metal and “light bulbs loaded with ammonia” at the strikers.
It was also during this time that the New Jersey's Supreme Court Justice Frank T. Lloyd called attention of the Grand Jury to a "serious situation”. That being the Police starting to “use their clubs”.
RCA made a "final statement” where they demanded an end to the strike and refused to recognize the independent trade union of John Lewis' United Workers as the sole bargaining agency in place of the company union. Even if a labor relations board poll should have shown John Lewis' United Workers represented a majority of the RCA plants employees.
All culminated with a “two-hour pitched battle” between 5,000 people where “bricks, stones and clubs flew freely” between scabs and strikers. With the RCA strikers being supported by some 1,000 Philco and N. Y. Shipbuilding Corp strikers in solidarity. With the scabs being supported by “virtually the entire Camden police force”. The day afterwards “another skirmish of equal fury took place”.
I was unable to find what ultimately happend to the strike sadly. If you know, feel free to comment.
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