May 27, 1944
The front page of the Call and Post told a different story regarding race relations in the war industries. White workers, themselves migrants to Ohio from the South, walked out of Euclid-Case Foundry shell plant because they did not want to work alongside black workers. “So while our armies in Italy blast away with 105 mm. shells at the Nazi foe, and ammunition stocks are rapidly depleted, the replacements that should be flowing from the Euclid-Case plant have been bottle-necked by Old Man Jim Crow,” the paper reported (click to view PDF).