Tag: labor history
This week in labor history: September 21-27
SEPTEMBER 21
1896 – Militia sent to Leadville, Colo., to break miners’ strike.
1912 – Mother Jones leads a march of miners’ children through the streets...
This week in labor history: September 14-20
SEPTEMBER 14
1901 – The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers union calls off an unsuccessful three-month strike against U. S. Steel Corporation...
This week in labor history: September 7-13
SEPTEMBER 7
1916 – Federal employees win the right to receive Workers’ Compensation insurance coverage.
SEPTEMBER 8
1909 – Employers give in to the demands of thousands...
This week in labor history: August 30 – September 6
AUGUST 31
1921 – Some 10,000 striking miners begin a fight at Blair Mountain, W.Va., for recognition of their union, the United Mine Workers of...
This week in labor history: August 24-30
AUGUST 24
1970 – United Farm Workers Union begins lettuce strike.
AUGUST 25
1925 – Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters founded at a meeting in New York...
This week in labor history: August 17-23
AUGUST 17
1985 – Year-long Hormel meatpackers’ strike begins in Austin, Minn.
AUGUST 18
1927 – Radio station WEVD, named for Eugene V. Debs, goes on the...
This week in labor history: August 10-16
AUGUST 10
1931 – The Air Line Pilots Association is founded at a meeting in Chicago attended by 24 activists from across the country.
1935 –...
This week in labor history: August 3-9
AUGUST 3
1913 – Fighting breaks out when sheriff’s deputies attempt to arrest Wobbly leader Richie “Blackie” Ford as he addressed striking field workers at...
This week in labor history: July 27-August 2
JULY 27
1869 – William Sylvis, founder of the National Labor Union, died.
JULY 28
1869 – Women shoemakers in Lynn, Mass., create Daughters of St. Crispin,...
This week in labor history: July 20-26
JULY 20
1899 – New York City newsboys, many so poor that they were sleeping in the streets, begin a two-week strike. Several rallies drew...
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