The Hub of Hell: The 1935 Flour City Iron Strike
In the late summer of 1935, a violent labor confrontation erupted along 27th Avenue South when metalworkers at the Flour City Ornamental Iron Works struck for basic wage survival. Confronted by the Citizens Alliance, armed strikebreakers, and police tear gas, striking metalworkers fought back in a deadly three-day siege that left two bystanders dead and fractured the Farmer-Labor Party. In this episode of Pionerd: The Minnesota Edition, host Robert Thomas details the street-level mechanics of the standoff, the political fallout that rocked City Hall, and how a brave community shattered a…
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