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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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April 30 - Coxey’s Army Marches on the Nation’s Capitol

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/30

On this day in Labor History the year was 1894. A group of 400-500 unemployed men marched down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the US Capitol. In a buggy at the front of the march rode Jacob Coxey.

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April 29 - The 1963 Bristol Boycott

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/29

When you stand up for Civil Rights and Workers Rights you never know how far the struggle may travel. This was the caseon this day in Labor History the year was 1963

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April 28 - Workers Memorial Day

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/28

On this day in Labor History the year was 1971. That was the day that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration was founded. Since then OSHA rules have become a powerful tool for the protection of workers health and safety

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April 27 - The Lavender Scare

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/27

You have probably heard about the Red Scare, when thousands of people lost their jobs in the 1950s for allegedly harboring Communist sympathies. But have you ever heard of the “Lavender Scare” that happened during those same years?

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April 26 - An Act to Protect Free White Labor

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/26

In 1848 gold was discovered at John Sutter’s Mill in California. As word spread, fortune seekers from all across the United States and across the world flocked to California in what came to be known as the Gold Rush.

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April 25 - Strikebreaking in South Carolina

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/25

On this day in Labor History the year was 1969. The Governor of South Carolina sent 1,000 state troopers and National Guardsmen to Charleston. They were sent there to deal with striking hospital workers who wanted union recognition.

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April 24 - The Deadly Cost of Fashion

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/24

On this day in Labor History the year was 2013. That was the day of the deadliest workplace disaster in garment industry history. More than 1,100 workers lost their lives when a factory complex building collapsed in Bangladesh.

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April 23 - Remembering Ida Mae Stull

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/23

On this day in Labor History the year was 1980. That was the day that Ida Mae Stull passed away.She is widely considered to be the first woman coal miner in United States history.

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April 22 - Remembering Hazel Dickens

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/22

On this day in Labor History the year was 2011. That was the day the labor movement lost one of its most poignant voices. Hazel Dickens was born in Mercer County, West Virginia in 1935. It was coal country.

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April 21 - The National Coal Strike of 1894

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/21

On this day in Labor History the year was 1894. The nation was in the grip of deep depression. Unemployment soared. Workers wages and hours were cut dramatically in virtually every industry.

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April 20 - The Ludlow Massacre

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/20

On this day in Labor History the year was 1914 the bloody anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre. 11,000 miners had gone on strike against the Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation, owned by one of the wealthiest men in the world, John D. Rockefeller.

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April 19 - Terrorists Bomb Oklahoma City

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/19

This marks the day one of the most horrendous acts of domestic terrorism in U.S. History occurred in Oklahoma City. A truck bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killing 168 people

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April 18 - Employment Discrimination Ends at NYC Bus...

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/18

You have more than likely heard of Rosa Parks, and how she heroically sat down on a bus to help end segregation in Montgomery, Alabama. But did you know discrimination often barred black bus drivers, even in northern cities?

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April 17 - The Spirit of Solidarity

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/17

On this day in Labor History the year was 1911. This marks the day that more than 4,000 furniture makers walked off the job in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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April 16 - 581 Killed in Texas City Disaster

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/16

On this day in Labor History the year was 1947. The day dawned unseasonably cool in Texas City, TX, a port city forty miles south of Houston on the Gulf of Mexico.

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April 15 - Jackie Robinson Breaks the Major Leagues...

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/15

On this day in Labor History the year was 1947. It was opening day of a truly new baseball season.

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April 14 - The Grapes of Wrath

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/14

On this day in Labor History the year was 1939. This was the day readers were first introduced to John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.

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April 13 - Debs Goes to Prison

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/13

On this day in Labor History the year was 1919. Labor leader and socialist Eugene V. Debs was sent to prison for speaking out against World War I.

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April 12 - Florence Reese is Born

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/12

There are some songs that stand at the core of the labor movement. Year after year these songs ring out on picket lines, at labor rallies, and in union halls around the world. These Songs inspire and build solidarity between workers.

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April 11 - Ford Finally Comes to the Negotiating Table

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/04/11

On this day in Labor History the year was 1941. For years auto workers had participated in a series of sit down strikes and walk outs. They had won union recognition from almost every major auto maker.

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