For more than an hour after the "sit-down" began, the street in front of the plant was jammed with employees, sympathizers, and curious; shouting and waving to those in the building. Cigarettes and sandwiches were hoisted by rope. This was the city's first factory sit-down strike.
(from "Conference Fails to Bring About Pact," Bridgeport Post, April 6, 1937.
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