Tag: labor history
This week in labor history: April 10-16
APRIL 10
1917 – A total of 133 people, mostly women and girls, are killed when an explosion in the loading room tears apart the...
This week in labor history: April 3-9
APRIL 3
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. returns to Memphis to stand with striking AFSCME sanitation workers. This evening, he delivers his famous “I’ve...
This week in labor history: March 27-April 2
MARCH 27
1904 – Mother Jones is ordered to leave Colorado, where state authorities accuse her of “stirring up” striking coal miners.
2002 – U.S. Supreme...
This week in labor history: March 20-26
MARCH 20
1905 – Fifty-eight workers are killed, 150 injured when a boiler explosion levels the R.B. Grover shoe factory in Brockton, Mass. The four-story...
This week in labor history: February 27- March 5
FEBRUARY 27
1875 – Legendary Labor leader and socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs becomes charter member and secretary of the Vigo Lodge, Brotherhood of...
This week in labor history: February 13-19
FEBRUARY 13
1865 – A national eight-month strike by the Sons of Vulcan, a union of iron forgers, ends in victory when employers agreed to...
This week in labor history: February 6-12
FEBRUARY 6
1896 – Ironworkers from six cities meet in Pittsburgh to form the Int’l Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers of America. Their...
This week in labor history: January 30-February 5
JANUARY 30
1882 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born in Hyde Park, N.Y. He was elected president of the United States four times starting in...
This week in labor history: January 22-29
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 16-22
JANUARY 16
1920 – Thousands of Palmer Raids detainees win right to meet with lawyers and attorney representation at deportation hearings. “Palmer” was Alexander Mitchell...