New York Shipbuilding strike

A second and longer strike of the company occurred in the spring and summer 1935, which required intervention from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to force a settlement.

[2] The company's ownership changed hands several times due to financial instability after World War I.

[1] By the summer of 1933, wages and conditions in the port were considered unsatisfactory due to the increased cost of living and lack of support by the American Federation of Labor.

The strike lasted for a total of seven weeks and stopped the production of many naval vessels, tankers and other ships.

The union's executive secretary, John Green, was elected to go to Washington to ask for an inquiry, after the company failed to "give a week’s notice with pay on dismissal, failure to pay agreed rates to third-class helpers, and refusal to nominate its members to the board of arbitration.

[9] The Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, investigated the background to the strike, reporting findings directly to the President, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Roosevelt, a former Secretary of the Navy, demanded that management negotiate with the union, threatening that otherwise the company would lose all US Naval contracts.