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Later in the decade came another important, but violent, strike. The Little Steel strike of 1937 was unique because the employers were actually able to fend off the organizing forces led by the newly formed Committee for Industrial Organizations (CIO) and its offspring, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC). The "Little Steel" companies — Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, Inland Steel, and Bethlehem Steel — were antiunion and refused to accept the SWOC as a bargaining agent for its workers. Organizers believed that the steel industry was a vital proving ground for unionization; therefore, the defeat tested the resolve of the union movement. Ultimately, however, the companies succumbed to the pressure of unionization and were forced to recognize the SWOC.
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