Remembering the Workers of the Domino Sugar Factory

[marybourg]

1. I worked there.

50 years ago, in the golden age of Brooklyn large industry. There had been a bitter strike some years before which resulted in management replacing the employee-guards (who had joined or at least sympathized with the strike) with rent-a-cops. This engendered much resentment. Many of the professional and scientific employees were first wave Cuban refugees who had been Domino employees in Cuba before Castro nationalized all industry there.