Tag: labor history
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...
This week in labor history: April 19-25
APRIL 19
1911 – In Grand Rapids, Michigan, the nation’s “Furniture City,” more than 6,000 immigrant workers — Germans, Dutch, Lithuanians and Poles — put...
This week in labor history: April 12-18
APRIL 12
1858 – A group of “puddlers” — craftsmen who manipulated pig iron to create steel—meet in a Pittsburgh bar and form The Iron...
This week in labor history: April 5-11
APRIL 5
1956 – Columnist Victor Riesel, a crusader against mob infiltration of unions, was blinded in New York City when an assailant threw sulfuric...
11 years ago today, 29 miners died in an explosion at...
Montcoal, W. VA – Today marks the 11th anniversary of the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster in Raleigh County, West Virginia, where 29 miners...
This week in labor history: March 29-April 4
MARCH 29
1937 – The U.S. Supreme Court, in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, upholds the constitutionality of minimum wage legislation enacted by the...
This week in labor history: March 22-28
MARCH 22
1886 – Mark Twain, a lifelong member of the Int’l Typographical Union (now part of CWA), speaks in Hartford, Conn., extolling the Knights...
This week in labor history: March 15-21
MARCH 15
1887 – Official formation of the Painters Int’l Union.
1917 – Supreme Court approves Eight-Hour Act under threat of a national railway strike.
1948 –...
This week in labor history: March 8-14
MARCH 8
1924 – Three explosions at a Utah Fuel Co. mine in Castle Gate, Utah, kill 171. Fifty of the fatalities were native-born Greeks,...