![Today in labor history, August 5, 1931: Fifteen hundred jobless men storm the plant of the Fruit Growers’ Express Company in Indiana Harbor, Indiana, demanding that they be given jobs to keep them from starving. The company responded by calling the police, who arrived with clubs and dispersed the men. [Photo: publicity still of Richard Barthlemass in William Wellman’s Heroes for Sale (1933).]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8a9yaFcdf1rnmfrmo1_500.jpg)
Today in labor history, August 5, 1931: Fifteen hundred jobless men storm the plant of the Fruit Growers’ Express Company in Indiana Harbor, Indiana, demanding that they be given jobs to keep them from starving. The company responded by calling the police, who arrived with clubs and dispersed the men. [Photo: publicity still of Richard Barthlemass in William Wellman’s Heroes for Sale (1933).]
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