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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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September 16 - The 1920 Bombing of Wall Street

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/16

On this day in Labor History the year was 1920. At noon, a horse-drawn wagon containing 100 pounds of dynamite pulled up across the street of the J.P. Morgan Chase Company on Wall Street in New York City. 500 pounds of cast-iron slugs were packed in with the dynamite.

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September 15 - Women & Children Fight for the 10 Hour...

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/15

On this day in Labor History the year was 1845. 5,000 female workers at the Allegheny Cotton Mills went on strike for a ten-hour day. The fast streams around Pittsburgh and Allegheny city were ideal to power cotton mills. The mills were overheated and filled with dangerous dust.

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September 14 - Congress Attacks, Handcuffs Workers

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/14

On this day in Labor History the year was 1959. The United States Congress passed the Landrum-Griffin Act. President Eisenhower signed the new law, which was also called the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. The new law had lasting consequences for the way unions operated.

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September 13 - Beating Teachers in the Streets

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/13

On this day in Labor History the year was 2013. Riot police used tear gas and water cannons to clear out Zocalo Square in Mexico City. The square was occupied by protesting teachers. The teachers had been on strike for weeks. They wanted changes made to education reforms that had been passed by the Mexican government.

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September 12 - Do Workers Gain from War?

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/12

On this day in Labor History the year was 1918. Socialist and labor leader Eugene Debs was sentenced to ten years in prison for opposing the United States’ involvement in World War I. The Espionage and Sedition Act had been passed a year earlier.

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September 11

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/11

Today in Labor History, we pause to remember the events that took place on the morning of September 11. The year was 2001. Terrorists hijacked planes and intentionally crashed them into Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks.

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September 10 - The Lattimer Massacre

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/10

On this day in Labor History the year was 1897, striking coal miners marched on a coal mine in Lattimer, Pennsylvania. Earlier that year the miners had gone out on strike. Most of the miners were German or Eastern European immigrants.

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September 9 - The Hanapepe Massacre

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/09

On this day in Labor History the year was 1924. Sixteen striking Filipino sugar workers on the Hawaiian island of Kauaiwere killed by police. This incident is known as the Hanapepe Massacre. Filipinos began immigrating to Hawaii to work on sugar plantations in 1906.

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September 8 - The Fight for an Education

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/08

On this day in Labor History the year was 1901. That was the day that Francisco Ferrer opened the Escuela Moderna in Barcelona, Spain. Ferrer was anarchist and educator. Explaining what he hoped to accomplish with these new schools. He said, “There must be a co-education of the different social classes as well as of the two sexes.”

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September 7 - Actors Boycott the Enmys

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/07

On this day in Labor History the year was 1980. The 32nd Annual Emmy Awards show took place despite 51 of the 52 nominated performers boycotting the event. At issue was a strike by members of the Screen Actors Guild. Powers Boothe was the only nominated actor to attend.

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September 6 - Packinghouse Workers Win Master Contract

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/06

On this day in Labor History the year was 1941. The Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee, part of the CIO, and Armour & Company signed a master contract. This was the first such contract in the meatpacking industry. Within two years, three other major meatpackers also signed agreements with the union.

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September 5 - The First Labor Day

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/05

What are your plans for Labor Day weekend? Are you going to enjoy a barbecue with friends or family, or maybe march with your union in a parade? Do you know the history of this holiday? On this day in Labor History the year was 1882.

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September 4 - Look for the Union Label

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/04

On this day in Labor History the year was 1894. At least 10,000 tailors went on strike to protest their sweatshop working conditions. The New York Times reported “contract tailors of New York and Brooklyn celebrated Labor Day yesterday by going on strike.” Unemployed tailors pledged not to work as scabs.

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September 3 - The Day the Pictures Spoke

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/03

On this day in Labor History the year was 1928. 300 musicians working in Chicago went on strike against 250 movie theaters. They were protesting their impending replacement by talking pictures. This was part of a nationwide wave of protest by the American Federation of Musicians.

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September 2 - Division in the Mines

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/02

On this day in Labor History the year was 1885.White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming planned to wipe out the town’s entire Chinese community. Chinese immigrants came to the United States looking for work, first in the California gold mines, then as laborers on the Transcontinental Railroad.

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September 1 - The First Overnight Sleeping Car Ride

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/09/01

On this day in Labor History the year was 1859. That was the day the first Pullman sleeping car made an overnight trip. The first Pullman sleeper was a renovated day coach. That first trip was made on the Chicago and Alton Railroad between Bloomington, Illinois and Chicago.

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August 31 - Why We March

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2025/08/31

On this day in Labor History the year was 1991. Three thousand five hundred buses rolled into Washington, D.C. They were loaded with protesters, there to participate in Solidarity Day.

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August 30 - The Battle of Blair Mountain

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/08/30

On this day in Labor History the year was 1921. That was the day that one of most pitched battles in US labor history, the “Battle of Blair Mountain” began in West Virginia. Coal fueled the engines of industry, keeping the trains moving and the steel mills humming.

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August 29 - The Lusty Lady Organizes

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/08/29

On this day in Labor History the year was 1996. That was the day that workers at the Lusty Lady strip club in San Francisco made their final push to make their case for the right to join a union. They made history by winning the union vote fifty-seven to fifteen.

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August 28 - Marching Towards a Dream

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/08/28

On this day in Labor History the year was 1963. That was the day of one of the most iconic stands for justice and equality in United States history. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech” to a quarter-million people in Washington D.C.

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