s0239 BURBANK, DAVID T.
COLLECTION, 1934-1935
1 MICROFILM ROLL, 1 ORAL HISTORY (T217)

STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI RESEARCH CENTER-ST. LOUIS
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS

The St. Louis Gas House Workers Union, Local 1879 organized one of the earliest strikes against a public utility in the United States in 1935. Burbank served as one of the editors of the daily strike bulletin. He modeled it after a similar bulletin from a 1934 strike in Minneapolis. Contains volume 1, No. 1-82 of Gas House Worker (St. Louis) and Vol. 1, No. 1-45 of The Organizer (Minneapolis).

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