Tag: labor history
Imbs Mill boiler finds new home at Belleville Labor and Industry...
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Belleville, IL – Norbert Hohrein, 89, still lives out on his farm near Lebanon, Ill., but these days he’s also the...
This week in labor history: January 31-February 6
JANUARY 31
1938 – Some 12,000 pecan shellers in San Antonio, Texas — mostly Latino women — walk off their jobs at 400 factories in...
ST. LOUIS LABOR RETROSPECTIVE: Make LABELS, not war
The Allied Printing Trades Council Union Label was the most recognized union label for many decades. Founded and designed by the International Typographical Union...
This week in labor history: January 17-23
JANUARY 17
1915 – Radical Labor organizer and anarchist Lucy Parsons leads hunger march in Chicago; IWW songwriter Ralph Chaplin wrote “Solidarity Forever” for the...
This week in labor history: January 10-16
JANUARY 10
1860 – In what is described as the worst industrial disaster in state history, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Mass., collapses, trapping 900...
This week in labor history: January 3-9
JANUARY 3
1852 – The ship Thetis arrives in Hawaii with 175 Chinese field workers bound to serve for five years at $3 per month.
1917...
This week in labor history: December 27-January 2
DECEMBER 27
1943 – President Roosevelt seizes the railroads to avert a nationwide strike. His decision to temporarily place the railroads under the “supervision” of...
This week in labor history: December 13-19
DECEMBER 13
1924 – Death in San Antonio, Texas, of Samuel Gompers, president and founder of the American Federation of Labor.
DECEMBER 14
1995 – Some 33,000...
This week in labor history: December 6-12
DECEMBER 6
1869 – African-American delegates meet in Washington, D.C., to form the Colored National Labor Union as a branch of the all-white National Labor...
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...