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Labor History in 2:00

The Rick Smith Show

A daily, pocket-sized history of America"s working people, brought to you by The Rick Smith Show team.

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October 6 - Québec Autoworkers Walk Off the Job

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/10/06

On this day in Labor History the year was 1996 fifteen thousand workers at the General Motors Plant in Quebec walked off the job. Members of the Canadian Auto Workers union were frustrated with their wages. They were also angry about layoffs and GM’s moves to outsource some of the auto production to non-unionized labor.

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October 5 - Labor Candidates Step Up

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2025/10/05

On this day in labor history, the year was 1886. That was the day Henry George accepted the nomination to run for mayor of New York on the United Labor Party ticket. In cities across the country, trade unionists met to found state labor parties and to hammer out political platforms for local and state elections. In New York City, ULP advocates issued the Clarendon Hall platform and nominated Henry George as the ULP candidate for the mayoral race. George had gained prominence with the 1879

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October 4 - Truman Seizes the Nation’s Oil Fields

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2025/10/04

On this day in Labor History the year was 1945. That was the day President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9639. It ordered the US Navy to seize control of more than four dozen oil refineries across the country. As World War II was drawing to a close, workers in many industries were growing increasingly restless. They had seen company owners rake in record profits, and the workers felt they had not received their fair share.

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October 3 - Packinghouse Workers Win!

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2025/10/03

On this day in Labor History the year was 1943. That was the day the United Packinghouse Workers of America was chartered under the CIO. The new union was the result of the CIO’s Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee. Started in 1937 the Organizing Committee was an effort to build a union that broke down barriers between races and crafts in the meatpacking industry.

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October 2 - Baristas of the World, Organize!

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2025/10/02

Did you enjoy a cup of coffee to start your day this morning? On this day in Labor History the year was 2007. That was the day that Starbucks agreed to post information about union rights on an employee bulletin board at its store in Grand Rapids Michigan. The Industrial Workers of the World were attempting to organize the baristas at that store.

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October 1 - Molding the Future

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2025/10/01

On this day in Labor History the year was 1991. That was the day that the Pattern Makers League of North America merged with International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Have you ever heard of the Pattern Makers union? The Pattern Makers can trace their history all the way back to 1887.

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September 30 - Homestead Strikers Tried for Treason

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2025/09/30

On this day in Labor History the year was 1892. That was the day that 29 leaders of the Homestead Steel Strike in Pennsylvania were charged with treason against the state. If you are a regular listener to this broadcast, you have heard about this strike before.

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September 29 - Murdered in Estevan

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2025/09/29

On this day in Labor History the year was 1931. Canadian Coal miners, their wives, and children marched through the streets of Estevan, Saskatchewan. The miners were on strike for union recognition, and better pay and working conditions. Safety was a major concern for the 600 men and boys who worked in the mines.

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September 28 - The Journey Towards Equal Treatment

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2025/09/28

On this day in Labor History the year was 1904. A woman was arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Women in the United States are no longer likely to be arrested for smoking cigarettes in public. They continue to face unequal treatment in the labor force.

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September 27 - The Uprising of the 20,000

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2025/09/27

On this day in Labor History the year was 1909. That was the day the International Ladies Garment Workers Union began a strike against the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Eventually, female workers struck at 339 of the 352 shirtwaist manufacturing firms in New York City. The strike was referred to as the “Uprising of the 20,000.”

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September 26 - Shays’ Rebellion

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/26

On this day in Labor History the year was 1786. Daniel Shays led a group of farmers in an armed uprising. They were angry about taxes levied by the State of Massachusetts. Shays had been a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

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September 25 - Lewis Hine is Born

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2025/09/25

Can a photograph bring about social reform? Lewis Hine believed it could. On this day in Labor History the year was 1874, renowned photographer, Lewis Hine, was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Hine studied sociology at the University of Chicago, Columbia University and New York University.

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September 24 - The Build of the Supreme Court

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/24

On this day in Labor History the year was 1789. Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789. This act established the plan for U.S. Supreme Court. At first the Court was comprised of just six justices appointed by the President with Senate confirmation.

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September 23 - Nixon’e Philadelphia Plan

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/23

On this day in Labor History the year was 1969. President Richard Milhous Nixon issued the Philadelphia Plan. The goal of the plan was to require building trades unions to admit black members into their ranks. Nixon believed this would show him as a civil rights supporter without having to give in to the more radical demands of the civil rights movement.

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September 22 - A Large Pizza with Pepperoni and a Union

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2025/09/22

On this day in Labor History the year was 2006. Eleven Domino’s pizza delivery drivers in Pensacola, Florida formed what is thought to be the first ever union of pizza delivery drivers. The American Union of Pizza Delivery Drivers won recognition from the National Labor Relations Board as the bargaining agent for drivers at the Pensacola franchise.

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September 21 - The March of Mother Jones

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/21

On this day in Labor History the year was 1912. That was the day that labor activist, Mother Jones, led a march of miners’ children through the streets of Charleston, West Virginia. Her aim was to illustrate the effects of poverty.

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September 20 - Upton Sinclair is Born

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/20

On this day in Labor History the year was 1878. That was the day that socialist author Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland. A prolific writer, Sinclair wrote nearly 100 books and other publications. Upton Sinclair’s father and father’s relatives had been wealthy Southerners.

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September 19 - The Solidarity March

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/20

On this day in Labor History the year was 1981. More than 400,000 union members marched in labor’s first Solidarity Day demonstration in Washington, D.C. The demonstration was called by the AFL-CIO to protest the Reagan administration’s policies and the firing of striking air traffic controllers.

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September 18 - The Horse Race

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/18

On this day in Labor History the year was 1830. That was the day that “Tom Thumb,” the first locomotive built in the U.S. raced a horse on a nine-mile course in Maryland.

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September 17 - A Fair Day’s Work for a Fair Day’s Pay

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2025/09/17

On this day in Labor History the year was 1868. That was the day that Susan B. Anthony, and a committee on female labor called for a vote for equal pay for equal work at the National Labor Congress. It was the second annual meeting of labor leaders from throughout the country. Anthony had begun publication of a newspaper, The Revolution.

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