workingclasshistory:

On this day, 23 October 1948, the United Brewery Workers union claimed that most of its 3000 wildcat striking members in New York City would return to work the following day, in what rank-and-file workers complained was a “conspiracy” to keep up the morale of brewery bosses. Strikers insisted that the strike would continue, and even grow, until bosses agreed to change a clause in their contract which penalised drivers for not loading or unloading their vehicles quickly enough. Sure enough, the claims of the union officials proved false and the strike continued. Meanwhile, police guarded bridges across the Hudson River to ensure safe transport of beer from out-of-state to the city. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1244140735771074/?type=3