Tag: labor history
Juneteenth origins date to Civil War
Celebration traced to freeing of slaves in Texas in 1865
By TOM EMERY
Correspondent
Juneteenth is the newest federal holiday in the calendar. Its origins, however, date...
This week in labor history: July 4-10
JULY 4
1924 – Five newspaper boys from the Baltimore Evening Sun die when the steamer they are on, the Three Rivers, catches fire near...
This week in labor history: June 27-July 3
JUNE 27
1905 – The Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the “Wobblies,” is founded at a 12-day-long convention in Chicago. The Wobbly...
This week in labor history: June 20-26
JUNE 20
1893 – The American Railway Union, headed by Eugene Debs, is founded in Chicago. In the Pullman strike a year later, the union...
This week in labor history: June 13-19
JUNE 13
1884 – Congress creates a Bureau of Labor under the Interior Department. It later became independent as a Department of Labor without executive...
This week in labor history: May 30 – June 5
MAY 30
1929 – The Ford Motor Company signs a “Technical Assistance” contract to produce cars in the Soviet Union, and Ford workers are sent...
This week in labor history: May 23-29
MAY 23
1903 – An estimated 100,000 textile workers, including more than 10,000 children, strike in the Philadelphia area. Among the issues: 60-hour workweeks, including...
This week in labor history: May 16-22
MAY 16
1934 – Minneapolis general strike backs Teamsters, who are striking most of the city’s trucking companies.
1938 – U.S. Supreme Court issues Mackay decision,...
This week in labor history: May 9-15
MAY 9
1837 – The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women was held on this date in New York City. Attendees included women of color,...
This week in labor history: April 2-8
MAY 2
1867 – Chicago’s first Trades Assembly, formed three years earlier, sponsors a general strike by thousands of workers to enforce the state’s new...