On Auburn Strike Front, photograph by ACME Newspictures, Inc., Auburn, Maine, March 23, 1937. Maine State Museum, 2018.48.1.
On Auburn Strike Front, photograph by ACME Newspictures, Inc., Auburn, Maine, March 23, 1937. Maine State Museum, 2018.48.1.
These National Guard troops patrol in front of the Somerset Shoe Factory, in Auburn, Maine.
By April 22, eight National Guard Units with over 400 soldiers had arrived to suppress the continuing strike. The Lewiston Evening Journal reported that the troops walked their posts around factories and at critical points along streets and at bridge approaches in a "nasty spring snowfall."