Category: Labor History

Labor History: The Pullman Strike of 1894.

05/11/10 | by txwordpounder [mail] | Categories: Labor History
The Pullman Strike of 1894 brought the fledgling American Railway Union (ARU) and its leaders, including Eugene V. Debs, into a confrontation that would end in the union's destruction--but not before the workers nearly brought the combined railroad compa… more »

May Day 2010: Workers struggle for the right to be human!

04/30/10 | by txwordpounder [mail] | Categories: Real Life, Labor History
Since the late 1880s, May 1st has been recognized around the world as International Workers Day. It commemorates a dark day in American worker history when on May 1, 1886, saboteurs, machine guns and state lynchings were turned loose against workers prot… more »

Joe Hill executed on this day in 1915.

11/19/09 | by txwordpounder [mail] | Categories: Labor History
On this date in 1915, songwriter, poet, labor activist. and IWW member Joe Hill was executed by firing squad in Utah for the murder of a local butcher. Even before his execution, the Swedish immigrant was widely thought to have been railroaded for his IW… more »

The 1916 Everett, Washington Massacre.

11/05/09 | by txwordpounder [mail] | Categories: Labor History
The Industrial Workers of the World spent considerable energy on free-speech fights in the early 1910s. After 1915, official organizational policy shifted from "the soapbox to the job," but one of the most important free-speech struggles did not erupt un… more »

November is a bloody month in labor history.

11/03/09 | by txwordpounder [mail] | Categories: Real Life, Labor History
November is one of the bloodier months in the struggle of organized labor. In the days ahead, I will highlight the most prominent of these bloody oppressions on their anniversary day. We must never forget the brave men and women who sacrificed their very… more »

Labor History 10-02-09

10/02/09 | by txwordpounder [mail] | Categories: Labor History
American Federation of Labor officially endorses campaign for a six hour day, five day workweek - 1934. Joining with 400,000 coal miners already on strike, 500,000 CIO steel workers close down the nation’s foundries, steel and Iron mills, demanding pe… more »

Labor History 10-01-09

10/01/09 | by txwordpounder [mail] | Categories: Labor History
Thousands of dairy farmers in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Iowa strike in demand of higher prices for their milk - 1935. more »
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