Tag: labor history
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...
This Week In Labor History October 30-November 5
OCTOBER 30
1986 – Ed Meese, attorney general in the Ronald Reagan administration, urges employers to begin spying on workers “in locker rooms, parking lots,...
This Week In Labor History October 23-29
OCTOBER 23
1902 – President Theodore Roosevelt establishes a fact-finding commission that suspends a nine-months-long strike by Western Pennsylvania coal miners fighting for better pay,...
This Week In Labor History October 16-22
OCTOBER 16
1859 – Abolitionist John Brown leads 18 men, including five free Blacks, in an attack on the Harper’s Ferry ammunition depot, the beginning...
This Week In Labor History October 9-15
OCTOBER 9
1888 – United Hebrew Trades is organized in New York by shirt maker Morris Hillquit and others. Hillquit would later become leader of...
This Week In Labor History October 2-8
OCTOBER 2
1934 – American Federation of Labor officially endorses campaign for a six-hour day, five-day workweek.
1949 – Joining with 400,000 coal miners already on...
This Week In Labor History September 25 – October 1
SEPTEMBER 25
1891 – Two African-American sharecroppers are killed during an ultimately unsuccessful cotton-pickers’ strike in Lee County, Ark. By the time the strike had...
This Week In Labor History September 18-24
SEPTEMBER 18
1978 – The Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) is formally founded at an Ohio convention, during a period of serious corruption in...
This Week In Labor History September 11-17
SEPTEMBER 11
1897 – Some 75,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia end a 10-week strike after winning an eight-hour day, semi-monthly pay,...
This Week In Labor History September 4-10
SEPTEMBER 4
1894 – Twelve thousand New York tailors strike over sweatshop conditions.
1949 – More than 140 attendees at a benefit for a civil rights...