Tag: labor history
This week in labor history: February 21-29
FEBRUARY 21
1868 – A state law is enacted in California providing the eight-hour day for most workers, but it was not effectively enforced.
1969 –...
This week in labor history: February 15-21, 2021
FEBRUARY 15
1802 – Susan B. Anthony, suffragist, abolitionist, labor activist, born in Adams, Mass. "Join the union, girls, and together say: Equal Pay for...
This week in labor history: February 8-14
FEBRUARY 8
1912 – Vigilantes beat IWW organizers for exercising free-speech rights, San Diego.
FEBRUARY 9
1917 – Wobbly activist Tom Mooney convicted in bombing frame-up orchestrated...
This week in labor history: February 1-7, 2021
FEBRUARY 2
1917 – Three hundred newsboys organize to protest a cut in pay by the Minneapolis Tribune.
1977 – Legal secretary Iris Rivera fired for...
This week in labor history: January 25-31, 2021
JANUARY 25
1851 – Sojourner Truth addresses first Black Women’s Rights convention.
1888 – The Sheet Metal Workers Int’l Association (SMWIA) is founded in Toledo, Ohio,...
This week in labor history: January 18-24, 2021
JANUARY 18
1909 – U.S. Supreme Court rules in Moyer v. Peabody that a governor and officers of a state National Guard may imprison anyone...
This week in labor history: January 11-17, 2021
JANUARY 11
1912 – The IWW-organized “Bread & Roses” textile strike of 32,000 women and children begins in Lawrence, Mass. It lasted 10 weeks and...
This week in labor history: January 4-10, 2021
JANUARY 4
1933 – Angered by increasing farm foreclosures, members of Iowa’s Farmers Holiday Association threaten to lynch banking representatives and law officials who institute...
This week in labor history: December 28-January 3, 2021
DECEMBER 28
1865 – The coffee percolator is patented by James H. Mason of Franklin, Mass., placing millions of caffeine-dependent working people forever in his...
This week in labor history: December 21-27
DECEMBER 21
1790 – Powered by children seven to 12 years old working dawn to dusk, Samuel Slater’s thread-spinning factory goes into production in Pawtucket,...