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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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July 18 - Sentenced to Death

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/18

On this day in Labor History the year was 1914. That was the day IWW songwriter, Joe Hill, was sentenced to be executed in Utah. He was convicted of murder although the charges were likely trumped up. Hill grew up in Sweden.

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July 17 - The Port Chicago Disaster

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/17

On this day in Labor History the year was 1944. A crew of mostly black soldiers were loading munitions onto ships at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, northeast of Oakland. 320 soldiers were killed by a munitions explosion that wounded another 390 people.

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July 16 - Mining Racial Divisions Proves Fatal

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/16

On this day in Labor History the year was 1894. Striking coal miners in Alabama killed a number of black miners. Both white and black miners were attempting to organize the southern bituminous coal fields during the 1890s.

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July 15 - The Execution of John Ball

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/15

On this day in Labor History and we are going all the way back to the year of 1381. That was the day John Ball, the leader of the Peasants’ Revolt in England was executed. Due to the plague, the Black Death, in 1348, many peasants had died.

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July 14 - The Great Uprising of 1877

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/14

On this day in Labor History the year was 1877. That was the day that what would come to be known as the “Great Upheaval” or “Great Uprising” began in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Railroad workers were angry. They had seen their wages cut twice in six months by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

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July 13 - Founding of the Niagara Movement

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/13

On this day in Labor History the year was 1905. That was the day that revolutionary black scholar W.E.B. DuBois helped found the Niagara Movement. It was named for the “mighty current” of change the group hoped to bring about. The initial organizing meeting was held near Niagara Falls, New York.

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July 12 - The Bisbee Deportation

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/12

On this day in Labor History the year was 1917. That was the day that miners in Bisbee, Arizona were rounded up, taken by train and left in the desert on the New Mexico/Arizona border.

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July 11 - A Mining Boom

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/11

On this day in Labor History the year was 1892. Striking silver miners in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho blew up the Frisco Mill. The miners were upset because the company had hired Pinkerton guards to infiltrate the mine.

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July 10 - Disaster in the Mines

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/10

On this day in Labor History the year was 1902. A powerful gas and dust explosion occurred in the Rolling Mill Mine in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Johnstown was rich in coal resources. The coal industry in Cambria County gradually grew thanks to the rise of the industry in the region.

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July 9 - Jacqueline Vaughn Leads the CTU

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/09

On this day in Labor History the year was1984. Jacqueline Vaughn became President of the Chicago Teachers’ Union. Jacqueline started out as a teacher and became a member of the collective bargaining team in 1968. She was elected Vice President of the CTU in 1972 and then became the first black woman to head up the third largest teacher’s union in the nation.

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July 8 - Mother Bloor

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/08

On this day in Labor History the year was 1862. Ella Reeves “Mother” Bloor was born in Staten Island, New York. She was a labor activist who investigated child labor in glass factories and mines.

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July 7 - Founding of the IWW

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/07

On this day in Labor History the year was 1905. It was the tenth day of the convention in Chicago, Illinois, where William (“Big Bill”) Haywood of the Western Federation of Miners, and Daniel De Leon and Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party founded the Industrial Workers of the World.

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July 6 - Battle at Homestead

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/06

On this day in Labor History the year was 1892. At 3 AM an alarm sounded in the town of Homestead, Pennsylvania. The steelworkers who lived in the town were on strike. Andrew Carnegie was the owner of the mill, located just outside of Pittsburgh.

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July 5 - Who is Freedom For?

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/05

The great orator and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, was invited to speak at the Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. The speech he gave that day would go down as one of his most powerful.

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July 4 - Freedom to Join a Union

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/04

Do you consider the right to join and form a union of your choosing a fundamental human right? The United Nations does! And on this day in Labor History the year was 1950. On that day the United Nations formally put into force the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize.

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July 3 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/03

On this day on labor history the year was 1860. That was the day Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Her father abandoned the family when Charlotte was an infant leaving them in poverty. This forced them to move around frequently. Charlotte’s education suffered as a consequence as she attended seven schools in four years.

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July 2 - Homestead

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2025/07/02

On this day in Labor History the year was 1892. That was the day that 3,800 workers at the Carnegie Steel Company, in Homestead, Pennsylvania were thrown into the streets and locked out of their jobs. The plant was located seven miles south-east of Pittsburgh. The general manager of the plant, Henry Clay Frick, was determined to break the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers union.

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July 1 - Union Busting at Phelps-Dodge

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/07/01

On this day in Labor History the year was 1983. That was the day that began a three year struggle by copper workers in Arizona. The contract for 13 unions in the mining towns that included Clifton and Morenci had expired. Many of the workers were Latino.

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June 30 - Taking to the Streets

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/06/30

On this day in Labor History the year was 1998. If you were trying to drive to work on that Tuesday morning in mid-town Manhattan you were probably late. Forty thousand construction workers took to the streets in a massive protest. They shut down more than 200 building projects.

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June 29 - Organizing Successes Bring Deportation

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/06/29

On this day in Labor History the year was 1936. Jesus Pallares, a Chicano miner and union organizer was deported from the United States. He was charged with having communist sympathies, and declared an “undesirable alien.”

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