Tag: labor history
This week in labor history: July 5-11
JULY 5
1894 – During a strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company, which had drastically reduced wages, buildings constructed for the 1893 World’s Columbian...
This week in labor history: June 28-July 4
JUNE 28
1850 – Birthday of machinist Matthew Maguire, who many believe first suggested Labor Day. Others believe it was Peter McGuire, a carpenter.
1894 –...
This week in labor history: June 21-27
JUNE 21
1802 – In England, a compassionate parliament declares that children can’t be required to work more than 12 hours a day. And they...
This week in labor history: June 14-20
JUNE 14
1872 – Unions legalized in Canada.
1951 – The first commercial computer, UNIVAC I, is installed at the U.S. Census Bureau.
JUNE 15
1908 – The...
This week in labor history: June 7-13
JUNE 7
1904 – Militia sent to Cripple Creek, Colo., to suppress Western Federation of Miners strike.
1913 – Sole performance of Pageant of the Paterson...
This week in labor history: May 31-June 6
MAY 31
1889 – The Johnstown Flood. More than 2,200 die when a dam holding back a private resort lake burst upstream of Johnstown, Penn....
This week in labor history: May 24-30
MAY 24
1883 – After 14 years of construction and the deaths of 27 workers, the Brooklyn Bridge over New York’s East River opens. Newspapers...
This week in labor history: May 10-16
MAY 10
1869 – Thanks to an army of thousands of Chinese and Irish immigrants, who laid 2,000 miles of track, the nation’s first transcontinental...
This week in labor history: May 3-9
MAY 3
1886 – Four striking workers are killed, at least 200 wounded, when police attack a demonstration on Chicago’s south side at the McCormick...
This week in labor history: April 26-May 2
APRIL 26
1944 – After management at Montgomery Ward repeatedly refuses to comply with an order by the National War Labor Board (created to avert...