“Memorial Day Massacre”, silent, b&w, 1937, 400′ film, no main title, shows footage of the 1937 Memorial Day incident as well as the aftermath including funerals of those killed by the Chicago Police Department.

In the Memorial Day massacre of 1937, the Chicago Police Department shot forty steel workers and killed ten. The protesters were unarmed. The attack took place in Chicago on May 30, 1937. The incident took place during the Little Steel strike in the United States. The incident arose after U.S. Steel signed a union contract but smaller steel manufacturers (called ‘Little Steel’), including Republic Steel, refused to do so. In protest, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) called a strike.