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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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December 31 - The First to Enter Ellis Island

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/31

On this day in labor history the year was 1891. That was the day that an Irish teenager by the name of Annie Moore arrived on the shores of New York. She was travelling with her two younger brothers. They had taken a twelve-day sea voyage to be reunited with their parents, who were already in New York City.

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December 30 - Railway Clerks Organize

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/30

On this day in labor history the year was 1899. That was the day that a group of thirty-three railway clerks gathered in the back room of Behrens’ cigar shop in Sedalia, Missouri. They called themselves the Order of Railway Clerks in America. They affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.

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December 29 - Pushing Back Against Plant Closures

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/29

On this day in labor history the year was 2006. That was the day that United Steelworker members ended a nearly three-month strike against the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. The strike involved nearly 15,000 workers from sixteen different plants across the United States and Canada.

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December 28 - Sit-Down Solidarity

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/28

On this day in labor history the year was 1936. That was the day that at 2pm in the afternoon, 200 workers at the Fisher Body Ohio Company on the East side of Cleveland sat down on the job. Fisher was located in Cleveland’s Collinwoodneighborhood.

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December 27 - FDR Takes Over the Rails

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/27

On this day in labor history the year was 1943. That was the day that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt seized control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike. The nation was in the midst of World War II.

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December 26 - A Rude Awakening

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/26

On this day in labor history the year was 1996. That was the day that working people of South Korea awoke to some alarming news. That morning the country’s new ruling party had passed a new set of labor laws. The new policies had been implemented at an unscheduled morning meeting.

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December 25 - And So This is Christmas?

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/25

On this day in labor history the year was 2001. That was the year that the spirit of Christmas must have seemed very far away from some of the workers who harvested Christmas Trees in the United States. Many of these workers come from Mexico and Central American countries. They come for the harvest as guest workers.

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December 24 - A Very Tragic Christmas

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/24

On this day in labor history the year was 1913. That tragic Christmas Eve, came to be known as the Italian Hall Disaster in Calumet, Michigan. A Christmas party was being held for children of striking copper miners.

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December 23 - The Right to Boycott

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2024/12/23

On this day in labor history the year was 1908. That was the day that three leaders of the American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell, and Frank Morrison, were sentenced to jail terms for calling for a Boycott against Bucks Stove & Range.

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December 22 - The Big Apple Comes to a Standstill

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/22

On this day in labor history the year was 2005. At 2:35 that afternoon the Transport Workers Union in New York City called an end to their three-day strike. The union represented 34,000 workers who kept the cities buses and subways running.

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December 21 - The Santa Maria School Massacre

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2024/12/21

On this day in labor history the year was 1907. At 3:45 that afternoon the Chilean military opened machine gun fire on a school occupied by striking workers. It is estimated that between one and three thousand people died that day in what came to be known as the Santa Maria School Massacre.

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December 20 - The Father of American Manufacturing

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/20

On this day in labor history the year was 1790. That was the day that work for many living in the new country of the United States began to change in a significant way. Samuel Slater operated the first cotton spindle machine to spin yarn in the U.S in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The 48-spindle machine ran on the water power of Pawtucket Falls.

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December 19 - Greyhound Strike Ends in Bitter Defeat

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/19

On this day in labor history the year was 1983. That was the day that a bitter national strike of Greyhound Workers came to a close. Nearly 13,000 bus drivers, mechanics and clerks had gone on strike. They were members of the Amalgamated Transit Union.

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December 18 - The Struggling HeartBeat of America

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/18

On this day in labor history the year was 1991. That was the day that thousands of workers at in U.S. General motor factories got some very bad news. The company’s CEO Robert Stampel announced that GM would eliminate 74,000 jobs and close 21 plants. The company was struggling.

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December 17 - The Fighting Deborah Samson

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/17

On this day in labor history the year was 1760. That was the day Deborah Samson was born in Plympton, Massachusetts. She was the first known woman to impersonate a man in order to fight in the Revolutionary War. Her family was poor. As a girl, young Deborah, became an indentured servant.

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December 16 - The Willmar 8

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/16

On this day in labor history the year was 1977. That was the day that eight women in Willmar, Minnesota stood up for their rights in the work place. The women worked at Willmar Citizens National Bank. These women were paid considerably less than the male employees.

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December 15 - Death of a Courageous Leader

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2024/12/15

On this day in labor history the year was 2005. That was the day the labor movement lost a man who was willing to go to jail to fight for the rights of working people. Clinton Jenks was born in Colorado Springs in 1918. He learned of labor consciousness from his father, a postal worker.

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December 14 - Socialist Leader Daniel De Leon is Born

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2024/12/14

On this day in labor history, the year was 1852.That was the day Socialist leader Daniel De Leon was born in Curaçao to Dutch Jewish parents. As a young man, he traveled Europe. He settled in New York City, and earned a law degree from Columbia University in 1878. De Leon joined the Socialist Labor Party in 1890 and became the editor of its newspaper, The People. His book, Socialist Landmarks, consisting of a series of lectures, became wildly popular. These lectures included Reform or Revolution,

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December 13 - Civil Rights Activist Ella Baker is Born

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2024/12/13

On this day in labor history, the year was 1903. That was the day prominent civil rights activist Ella Baker was born in Norfolk, Virginia. Her parents moved to Littleton, North Carolina when she was young. She often listened to her grandmother’s stories of slave revolts and of the brutality she endured under slavery. Ella attended the historically black college, Shaw University, graduating in 1927. After college, she moved to New York City and worked as a journalist. Ella was profoundly impacted by

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December 12 - Striking Autoworkers Push Back

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/12/12

On this day in labor history, the year was 1945.That was the day President Truman appointed a fact-finding panel to investigate the General Motors strike. As many as 320,000 UAW GM workers had been on strike for nearly three weeks. They had suffered deep wage cuts, deteriorating working conditions and endless contract violations during the war. UAW now demanded 30% wage increases. But President Truman and GM acted as if it was still wartime. Truman ordered a 30 day cooling off period to be followed

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