Participants will learn of the events which made national headlines in Hershey in 1937, in a presentation which brings the characters to life with photos and oral histories. On April 2, 1937, workers at the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, many who were Italian immigrants, went on strike as a result of very low wages and poor and hostile working conditions. The sit-down strike came to a halt on April 7, when company loyalists, farmers, and paid strikebreakers, allegedly orchestrated by the company, stormed the factory with weapons and brutally beat the workers, ejecting them from the plant.