{"id":1064738,"date":"2023-05-26T17:27:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T17:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=56a600cfef75e9ab9ab01dc82ca00a7d"},"modified":"2023-05-26T17:27:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T17:27:47","slug":"media-covered-up-1937-memorial-day-massacre-when-cops-killed-10-during-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/05\/26\/media-covered-up-1937-memorial-day-massacre-when-cops-killed-10-during-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Covered Up 1937 Memorial Day Massacre When Cops Killed 10 During Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We look at the largely forgotten 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, when police in Chicago shot at and gassed a peaceful gathering of striking steelworkers and their supporters, killing 10 people, most of them shot in the back. It was a time like today, when unions were growing stronger. The workers were on strike against Republic Steel, and the police attacked them with weapons supplied by the company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/media-covered-up-1937-memorial-day-massacre-when-cops-killed-10-during-strike\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/media-covered-up-1937-memorial-day-massacre-when-cops-killed-10-during-strike\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The workers were on strike against Republic Steel, and the police attacked them with weapons supplied by the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60032,463,872,60033,6656,4236],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064739,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064738\/revisions\/1064739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}