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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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February 23 - Danger Down Below

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/02/23

On this day in Labor History the year was 1875. That was the day that the National Marine Engineers’ Association was founded at a meeting in Cleveland, Ohio. The association represented steamboat engineers, most from boats navigating the Great Lakes. Being a steamboat engineer was risky business.

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February 22 - Fighting for a Floor

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/02/22

On this day in Labor History the year was 1860. That was the day that the shoemakers of Linn, Massachusetts walked out on strike. The shoemakers were very concerned over how technology was changing their work. Shoemaking had long been considered a skilled craft.

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February 21 - The Origins of Labor Day

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2026/02/21

Across the United States, workers enjoy the first Monday of September as their holiday. Labor Day has become known as a day for family picnics and community parades—but do you know how Labor Day really started?

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February 20 - The National Lawyers Guild is Founded

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2026/02/20

On this day in Labor History the year was 1937. That was the day the National Lawyers Guild held their first convention at the Hotel Washington in the nation’s capital. The guild was established as way to bring together progressive lawyers dedicated to fighting “for basic and progressive change in our political and economic system and to assure that human rights be regarded as more sacred than property interests.

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February 19 - Fighting for Dignity in a Fairy Tale

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2026/02/19

On this day in Labor History the year was 1997. If you had theater tickets that evening to see Beauty and the Beast in Seattle, the show did not go on as planned. Musicians at the Fifth Avenue theater, members of Local 76-493, had been on strike for a week.

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February 18 - THE MAN Hits the Stands

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/02/18

On this day in Labor History the year was 1834. That was the day that one of the earliest labor newspapers in the country published its first edition in New York City. The Man was a paper aimed at trade unionists.

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February 17 - Remembering Florence Kelley

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2026/02/17

On this day in Labor History the year was 1932. That was the day that working people in the United States said goodbye to one of their great heroes. Florence Kelley was born in Philadelphia in 1859. Her father, William D. Kelley, was a U.S. Senator.

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February 16 - Leonora O’Reilly is Born

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2026/02/16

On this day in Labor History the year was 1870. That was the day that the powerful labor orator Leonora O’Reilly was born to an Irish immigrant garment worker in New York City. During her lifetime Leonora left her special mark on the labor movement as a member of some of the leading organizations of working people of her day.

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February 15 - The CIO Purges Its Militants

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2026/02/15

On this day in Labor History the year was 1950. That was the day that the Red Scare took its toll on the US Labor Movement. The Congress of Industrial Organizations expelled the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers for their alleged Communist ties.

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February 14 - Frederick Douglass is Born

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/02/14

On this day in Labor History the year was 1818. That was the day that abolitionist Frederick Douglass chose to celebrate as his birthday. He could not be sure of the exact date of his birth, because he was born into slavery. He escaped from slavery and became one of the leading black writers and orators for the cause of abolition.

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February 13 - Sons of Vulcan

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/02/13

What labor union would you say has the coolest name? The Sons of Vulcan would most certainly have to be in the running. On this day in Labor History the year was 1865. That was the day the Sons of Vulcan ended their eight-month strike and won a union contract. The Vulcans were skilled steel workers.

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February 12 - The Most Dangerous Woman in America

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/02/12

On this day in Labor History the year was 1913. That was the day that the labor leader known as “Mother” Jones was arrested in West Virginia. She was there to support coal miners during the Paint and Cabin Creek strike of 1912-1913. The West Virginia coalfields were one of the bloodiest sites of labor conflict in US History.

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February 11 - Sweet Solidarity

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/02/11

On this day in Labor History the year was 1903. That was the day that workers in Oxnard, California took a united stand and showed the power of solidarity. Oxnard was a California boom town. The American Beet Sugar Company, owned by the Oxnard brothers, drew hundreds of workers to the area.

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February 10 - Solidarity at the Gate

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/02/10

On this day in Labor History the year was 1971. That was the day that is known in Great Britain as the Battle of Saltley Gate. 30,000 Birmingham engineers had walked out in solidarity with a strike by the National Union of Mineworkers. The miners were taking a stand against austerity pay.

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February 9 - Remembering George Lippard

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/02/09

On this day in Labor History the year was 1854. That was the day that novelist George Lippard died in Philadelphia. Lippard was friends with Edgar Allen Poe. He is most well-known for his novel about Philadelphia titled Quaker City. The book is considered to be one of the first American muckraking novels.

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February 8 - Spacemen Strike Back

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2026/02/08

On this day in Labor History the year was 1974. That was the day that a three-man American astronaut crew returned to earth from eighty-four-day mission at the Sky Lab. They were the first crew to spend so long in low-earth orbit up to that time.

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February 7 - The Sugar That’s Not So Sweet

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/02/07

On this day in Labor History the year was 2008. That evening at 7:15 p.m., an explosion rocked the city of Wentworth, just outside of Savannah, Georgia. An explosion had gone off at Imperial Sugar. Highly combustible sugar dust had ignited.

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February 6 - The Seattle General Strike

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2026/02/06

On this day in Labor History the year was 1919. That day began the week-long general strike in Seattle, Washington. As World War I drew to a close many workers in the city were frustrated by two years without pay increases due to the war. 35,000 workers in the shipyards walked off of the job.

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February 5 - Shot Down for Standing Up

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/02/05

On this day in Labor History the year was 1913. That was the day that Ida Breiman was killed while she stood up for the rights of working people in Rochester, New York. Ida was born in Russia to a Jewish family.

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February 4 - Canal Building in America

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/02/04

On this day in Labor History the year was 1825. That was the day the Ohio legislature authorized the Canal Act. The act called for the construction of two canals.

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