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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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May 20 - Rights on the Rail

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/20

On this day Labor History the year was 1926. That was the day President Calvin Coolidge signed the Railway Labor Act. For decades railroad labor disputes had often become bloody affairs.

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May 19 - Matewan

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/19

On this day Labor History the year was 1920. That year a national coal strike had won unionized miners a twenty-seven percent pay raise. But the miners in West Virginia were not in the union

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May 18 - The Estate of Karen Silkwood

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/18

On this day in labor history, the year was 1979. That was the day an Oklahoma City jury found in favor of the estate of Karen Silkwood. Karen worked as a lab tech at the Cimarron nuclear plant, operated by the Kerr-McGee Corporation.

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May 17 - Women Abolitionists Fearless in the Face of...

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/17

On this day in Labor History the year was 1838. The Second Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women was being held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For a while, a group of anti-slavery abolitionists had had difficulty finding a venue in the city willing to host their convention.

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May 16 - Remembering A. Philip Randolph

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/16

On this day in Labor History the year was 1979. That was the day that A Philip Randolph, perhaps the most significant African American figure in the US Labor Movement, passed away.

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May 15 - Remembering T-Bone Slim

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/15

On this day in labor history the year was 1942. The Labor Movement lost one of its prolific voices. T Bone Slim was born Matti Valentinpoika Huhta in Ashtabula Ohio.

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May 14 - The Day the Beer Stopped Flowing

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/14

One could say that brewing beer is important to the identity of the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Even the city’s baseball team goes by the name the “Brewers.” And so on this day in Labor History the year was 1953. The beer brewers in Milwaukee walked off the job in what came to be a ten week strike.

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May 13 - Driving Toward a Better Life

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/13

On this day in Labor History the year was 1998 and if you tried catch a cab in New York City on that particular day you probably did not have much luck. The city’s yellow cab drivers held a one day strike to protest Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s new taxi cab regulations.

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May 12 - The March to Stomp Out Poverty

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/12

On this day in Labor History the year was 1968. It was mother’s day. Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a group of thousands of women in a demonstration in Washington D.C.

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May 11 - In the Streets of Pullman

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/11

On this day in Labor History the year was 1894. It was the first day of the Pullman Strike.

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May 10 - Done!

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/10

On this day in Labor History the year was 1869. At 2:47 pm a one-word telegram was sent from Promontory Summit, Utah. The message read simply, “done.”

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May 9 - Remembering Walter Reuther

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/09

On this day in Labor History the year was 1970. On that day workers and the US labor movement lost a leading voice in a tragic plane crash.

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May 8 - Getting the Rails in Line

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/08

If you are a member of a union, how well do you know your union’s history? You might be surprised to find out how far back that history goes. Such is the case with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.

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May 7 - The Order of the Knights of St. Crispin

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/07

On this day in Labor History the year was 1867. That was the day that shoemakers founded the labor union the Knights of St. Crispin, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. St. Crispin is the patron saint of cobblers.

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May 6 - Fighting for Justice on Tobacco Road

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/06

On this day in Labor History the year was 1937. That was the year that 400 black women who worked as tobacco stemmers walked off the job at I.N. Vaughn and Company in Richmond, VA.

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May 5 - Founding of the Printers Voice

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/05

On this day in Labor History the year was 1852. It was the last day of a three-day convention held in Cincinnati, Ohio. Printers who worked for newspapers and other publications from fourteen cities had converged to decide if they wanted to form a union.

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May 4 - The Haymarket Incident

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/04

On this day in Labor History the year was 1886. This was one of the most significant days in US labor history. A mass meeting of workers was called for that night in Chicago’s Haymarket Square.

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May 3 - Blood in the Streets for the Eight Hour Day

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/03

On this day in Labor History the year was 1886. A little after three o’clock on that Monday, in Chicago, radical labor activist and newspaper man August Spies climbed onto a box car to give a speech about the fight for the eight hour day.

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May 2 - Student Protests Erupt in France

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/02

On this day in Labor History the year was 1968. That was the day the administration shut down the Paris University at Naterre. Student protests at the school had begun weeks before around the ideas of a sexual revolution, or the right of young people to sleep together if they chose to without adult interference or moralizing.

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May 1 - May Day 1886

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/05/01

On this day in Labor History the year was 1886. This was the day that began events in Chicago that would make May First the most important day on the calendar for the labor movement across the world.

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