Tag: labor history
This week in labor history: June 3 – 9
JUNE 3
1900 – Int’l Ladies Garment Workers Union founded.
1918 – A federal child labor law, enacted two years earlier, is declared unconstitutional.
1935 – More...
This week in labor history: May 27 – June 2
MAY 27
1935 – The U.S. Supreme Court declares the Depression-era National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional, about a month before it was set...
This week in labor history: May 13 – May 19
MAY 13
1893 – Western Federation of Miners formed in Butte, Mont.
1909 – The Canadian government establishes the Department of Labour. It took the U.S....
This week in labor history: May 6 – May 12
MAY 6
1935 – Works Progress Administration (WPA) established at a cost of $4.8 billion—more than $80 billion in 2015 dollars—to provide work opportunities for...
This week in labor history: April 29-May 5
APRIL 29
1894 – Coxey’s Army of 500 unemployed Civil War veterans reaches Washington, D.C.
1899 – An estimated 1,000 silver miners, angry over low wages,...
This week in labor history: April 15-21
APRIL 15
1889 – A. Philip Randolph, civil rights leader and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, born in Crescent City, Fla.
1912 –...