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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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November 1 - America’s First General Strike

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/11/01

On this day in Labor History the year was 1835. That was the day that workers in Philadelphia organized what was the first general strike in North America. There call was for a ten-hour workday.

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October 31 - Happy Union Made Halloween

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/11/01

On this day in Labor History ghosts and goblins are going door to door to gather up candy. But did you know that some of that candy is made by union workers? In Hershey, Pennsylvania, tagged the Sweetest place on earth you’ll find the nation’s chocolate center. It wasn’t always so sweet for workers who in 1937 tried to win union recognition. Then the company laid off some of the union organizers, and claimed it was due to seasonal cutbacks. Outraged, 600 workers began a sit-down strike in the

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October 30 - Another Front in Reagan’s War on Workers

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2024/11/01

On this day in Labor History the year was 1986. That was the day that Edward Meese, gave a speech to the US Chamber of Commerce. Meese was serving as Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan. During the speech, Meese encouraged bosses to spy on their employees, in order to determine if they were using drugs.

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October 29 - Black Tuesday

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2024/11/01

On this day in Labor History the year was 1929. That bleak day is now known as “Black Tuesday,” the day of the Stock Market crash that marked the start of the Great Depression. During the optimistic Roaring Twenties investments in the Stock Market soared.

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October 28 - A Gateway to the Future

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2024/11/01

On this day in Labor History the year was 1965. That was the day that the St. Louis Gateway arch was completed in St. Louis. The project was the result of a nation-wide design competition.

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October 27 - Founding of the National Negro Labor...

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/11/01

On this day in Labor History the year was 1951. That was the day that the National Negro Labor Council held its founding convention. African American workers had made significant gains in the American workforce during World War II.

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October 26 - Completion of the Erie Canal

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2024/11/01

On this day in Labor History the year was 1825. That was the day the construction of the Erie Canal was completed. The 363 mile canal connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, by way of the Hudson River. The project was started in 1817.

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October 25 - Strike at NY Daily News

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2024/11/01

On this day in Labor History the year was 1990. That was the day that eight of the ten unions at the New York Daily News went out on strike. The paper had had one of the highest daily circulations in the United States. The New York Daily News was owned by the Chicago-based Tribune Company. The strike began when management demanded major concessions from the delivery drivers, essentially forcing them to strike. Seven more unions joined them on the picket line. In retaliation management brought in

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October 24 - The Minimum Wage Law Goes into Effect

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2024/11/01

On this day in Labor History the year was 1934. That was the day that the first minimum wage law went into effect in the United States. The minimum was twenty-five cents an hour. The wage law was part of the Fair Labor Standards Act passed earlier that year.

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October 23 - The Cause and Effect of Unskilled Temps

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2024/10/23

On this day in Labor History the year was 1989. At 1:05 in the afternoon a massive explosion rocked the town of Pasadena, Texas, near Houston. The explosion was so large it registered as a 3.5 on the Richter scale, used to measure earthquakes.

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October 22 - The Bosses Labor Board Decertifies PATCO

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2024/10/22

On this day in Labor History the year was 1981. The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority voted to decertify Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. The PATCO union had gone on strike earlier that year over wages, hours, and working conditions.

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October 21 - Organizing in Paradise

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2024/10/21

On this day in Labor History the year was 1999. That was the day that 270 workers from the Embassy Vacation Resorts in Maui voted to join Local 5 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees. Local 5 got its start in Hawaii in 1938.

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October 20 - Merle Travis, Songs of the Working Man

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2024/10/21

On this day in Labor History the year was 1983. That was the day that musician Merle Travis died. Known for his unique finger-picking guitar style, Travis wrote songs that captured the hard life of the coal miner.

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October 19 - In the Streets and At the Shareholders...

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2024/10/21

On this day in Labor History the year was 1980. In what the Chicago Sun Times called it the “biggest labor management war of the last two decades.” The battle for union recognition at ten J.P. Stevens’s textile plants ended in victory.

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October 18 - Walking in Their Shoes

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2024/10/18

On this day in Labor History, and we are going all the way back to 1648. More than a hundred years before the American Revolution, an early trade organization was founded in the Colony of Massachusetts. They called themselves the “Company of Shoemakers.”

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October 17 - The Making of a Monopoly

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2024/10/17

On this day in Labor History, the year was 1877. That was the day that John D. Rockefeller, and his company Standard Oil struck a deal with the Pennsylvania Railroad that would cement his monopoly on the nation’s oil refineries. In the early 1870s Rockefeller was building his oil empire out from its center in Cleveland, Ohio.

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October 16 - Striking a Blow at Slave Labor

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2024/10/16

On this day in Labor History, the year was 1859. That was the day that abolitionist John Brown led a raid at the armory in Harpers Ferry, in what is now West Virginia. His goal was to strike a blow toward ending slavery.

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October 15 - Labor’s Magna Carta

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2024/10/15

On this day in Labor History, the year was 1914. That was the day that President Woodrow Wilson signed the Clayton Antitrust Act. The act also became known as Labor’s “Magna Carta.”

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October 14 - A Day of Protest in Canada

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2024/10/14

On this day in labor history, the year was 1976. That was the day more than a million Canadian workers walked off the job in a Day of Protest. The Canadian Labour Congress called the general strike. Workers downed their tools against a three-year wage controls plan implemented by then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Trudeau had actually campaigned against wage controls during the 1974 elections. A year later, the Liberal government introduced the C-73 Anti-Inflation Bill. It was considered the

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October 13 - An International Effort

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2024/10/14

On this day in labor history, the year was 2010. That was the day thirty-three Chilean miners were finally pulled to safety after being trapped for sixty-nine days. Workers had been mining copper and gold twenty three hundred feet down, at the San Jose mine near the northern city of Copiapo, when the mine caved in, in early August. The Compania Minera San Esteban Primera waited several hours to notify authorities and rescue efforts only began two days later. Trapped miners initially tried to escape

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