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This Day in Labor History: October 4, 1978. Nine Ellis Prison inmates in east Texas went on strike against the unpaid labor they had to do every day, refusing to
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This Day in Labor History: September 14, 1959. President Eisenhower signed the Landrum-Griffin Act after actively lobbying for its passage. It used union corruption as an excuse for a broad-based
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This Day in Labor History: September 6, 1869. The Avondale Colliery mine near Plymouth, Pennsylvania caught on fire, killing 110 workers. This disaster, one of the first major coal disasters
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This Day in Labor History: September 2, 1885. White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming killed at least 28 Chinese miners. Let's talk about the power of white supremacy to the
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This Day in Labor History: August 25, 1925. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded. Led by A. Philip Randolph, this labor union became the most important civil rights
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This Day in Labor History: August 23, 1927. Massachusetts executes Sacco & Vanzetti for the murder of two men in 1920. This trial and execution was the most grotesque combo
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This Day in Labor History: July 23, 1892. The anarchist Alexander Berkman walked into the office of Carnegie Steel executive Henry Clay Frick with a knife and gun in order
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This Day in Labor History: July 5, 1935. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. This groundbreaking piece of legislation gave workers a fair shake from the
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This Day in Labor History: June 26, 1894. The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, called for a boycott in solidarity with striking workers at Pullman, Illinois. Let's talk
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This Day in Labor History: June 18, 1954. The CIA-led coup against Guatemalan leader Jacobo Arbenz succeeds, undermining the Guatemalan workers movement with active assistance from the American Federation of
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This Day in Labor History: May 19, 1920. The Matewan Massacre took place in the small town of Matewan, West Virginia, a pitched battle between hired gun thugs of the
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Head of leftist magazine sees actual fascist in the White House during the middle of the most pathetic response to disease in American history, chooses to support third party vanity
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