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The Toledo Auto-Lite strike was a strike by a federal labor union of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) against the Electric Auto-Lite company of Toledo, Ohio, from April 12 to June 3, 1934. The strike is notable for a five-day running battle between roughly 6,000 strikers and 1,300 members of the Ohio National Guard. Known as the "Battle of Toledo," the clash left two strikers dead and more than 200 injured.〔Bernstein, ''The Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941,'' 1970.〕〔"New Peace Plan Drawn at Toledo As Riots Continue," ''Associated Press,'' May 27, 1934.〕 The strike is regarded by many labor historians as one of the three most important strikes in U.S. history.〔Pakulski, "As Auto-Lite's Labor Battle Became a War, Union Seeds Took Root," ''Toledo Blade,'' October 24, 1999.〕 ==Background== The enactment of the National Industrial Recovery Act on June 16, 1933, led to widespread union organizing in the United States.〔〔Phelan, ''William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader,'' 1989.〕〔Taft, ''The A.F. of L. From the Death of Gompers to the Merger,'' 1959.〕 AFL president William Green decided to focus the federation's organizing efforts on automaking because organizing in that industry had received more attention from the national press.〔 The problem for the federation remained its commitment to craft unionism. Auto workers, like many of the new mass production workers, were specialists rather than craftsmen, and industrial unionism appealed to them. The AFL, however, remained ardently committed to craft unionism. To balance the need to organize workers on an industrial basis without compromising its commitment to craft unionism, the AFL had early in its history settled on federal labor unions (FLUs). FLUs were temporary unions which organized workers on an industrial basis. Once the majority of workers in an industry were organized, the federal labor union would be disbanded and the workers parceled out to the AFL's unions on a craft basis.〔〔Foner, ''History of the Labor Movement in the United States. Vol. 3...'' 1964.〕 The AFL began its organizing campaign in the auto industry in September 1933, by assigning an AFL national organizer to Detroit. By March 1934, the AFL had established an FLU at Buick and Hudson Motor Car Company, and two at Fisher Body. Roughly 32,500 auto workers had joined the federation.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Auto-Lite strike」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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