On this day, May 25, in 1936

The Remington Rand Strike began when a Federal Labor Union organized its workers against the anti-union policies and actions of the typewriter company Remington Rand. The strike infuriated the Rand Company, who had a history of fiercely resisting Union activity in its plants and harassing Union leaders. The company used violent and deceitful union-busting methods that the president of the Company detailed in a document called “the Mohawk Valley Formula.” This formula, which became widely used, included ‘warlike’ force and the use of the media to discredit Union leaders and frame strikers as agitators who don’t deserve rights.