Tag: labor history
This Week In Labor History January 22-28
JANUARY 22
1826 – Indian field hands at San Juan Capistrano mission refused to work, engaging in what was probably the first farm worker strike...
This Week In Labor History January 15-21
JANUARY 15
1919 – Seventeen workers in the area die when a large molasses storage tank in Boston’s North End neighborhood bursts, sending a 40-foot...
This Week In Labor History January 8-14
JANUARY 8
1811 – The largest slave revolt in U.S. history begins on Louisiana sugar plantations. Slaves armed with hand tools marched toward New Orleans,...
This Week In Labor History January 1-7
JANUARY 1
1920 – John L. Lewis is elected president of the United Mine Workers. Fifteen years later, he is to be a leader in...
This Week In Labor History December 25-31
DECEMBER 25
1910 – A dynamite bomb destroys a portion of the Llewellyn Ironworks in Los Angeles, where a bitter strike was in progress.
1967 –...
This Week In Labor History December 11-17
DECEMBER 11
1886 – A small group of Black farmers organize the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union in Houston County, Texas. They had...
This Week In Labor History December 4-10
DECEMBER 4
1943 – President Roosevelt announces the end of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), concluding the four-year run of one of the American government’s most...
This Week In Labor History November 20-26
NOVEMBER 20
1901 – Mine fire in Telluride, Colo., kills 28 miners, prompts union to call for safer work conditions.
1968 – A total of 78...
This Week In Labor History November 13-19
NOVEMBER 13
1909 – A total of 259 miners died in the underground Cherry Mine fire. As a result of the disaster, Illinois established stricter...
This Week In Labor History November 6-12
NOVEMBER 6
1887 – French transport worker and socialist Eugene Pottier dies in Paris at age 71. In 1871 he authored “L’Internationale,” the anthem to...