Tag: labor history
This week in labor history: November 29 – December 5
NOVEMBER 29
1934 – Clerks, teamsters and building service workers at Boston Stores in Milwaukee strike at the beginning of the Christmas rush. The strike...
This week in labor history: November 22-28
NOVEMBER 22
1909 – “The Uprising of the 20,000.” Some 20,000 female garment workers are on strike in New York; Judge tells arrested pickets: “You...
This week in labor history: November 15-21
NOVEMBER 15
1881 – Founding convention of the Federation of Trades and Labor Unions is held in Pittsburgh. It urges enactment of employer liability, compulsory...
This week in labor history: November 8-14
NOVEMBER 8
1892 – 20,000 workers, Black and White, stage general strike in New Orleans, demanding union recognition and hour and wage gains.
1933 – President...
Miners’ history should take center stage in southwestern Illinois
By ROBERT KELLY
Correspondent
Mt. Olive, IL – Communities in southwestern Illinois must continue to cultivate their vital role in the history of the Labor Movement and...
This week in labor history: October 25-31
OCTOBER 25
1899 – What many believe to be the first formal training on first aid in American history took place at the Windsor Hotel...
This week in labor history: October 18-24
OCTOBER 18
1648 – The “Shoemakers of Boston” — the first Labor organization in what would later become the United States — was authorized by...
This week in labor history: October 11-17
OCTOBER 11
1873 – The Miners’ National Association is formed in Youngstown, Ohio, with the goal of uniting all miners, regardless of skill or ethnic...
This week in labor history: October 4-10
OCTOBER 4
1927 – Work begins on the carving of Mt. Rushmore, a task 400 craftsmen would eventually complete in 1941. Despite the dangerous nature...
This week in labor history: September 27-October 3
SEPTEMBER 27
1875 – Striking textile workers in Fall River, Mass., demand bread for their starving children.
1893 – The Int’l Typographical Union renews a strike...