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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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October 12 - Bury Me with My Boys in Mt. Olive

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/10/14

Bury me with my boys in Mt. Olive, and let no traitor draw breath over my grave.” Such was the last wish of labor leader Mother Jones. She wanted her final resting to place to be alongside the coal miners who gave their lives in the struggle to bring fair wages and a safe working environment to Virden, Illinois.

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October 11 -Remembering The Woman Behind the Lens

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/10/11

On this day in labor history, the year was 1965. That was the day acclaimed photojournalist Dorothea Lange died. She is celebrated for her work documenting the Great Depression for the Farm Security Bureau. Lange’s photos captured images of migrant workers, sharecroppers and the rural poor. Her iconic photo, Migrant Mother, is probably her most well known image. It depicts a despondent, Dust Bowl mother surrounded by her hungry children. Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1895. She suffered

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October 12 - Remembering the Woman Behind the Lens

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/10/11

On this day in labor history, the year was 1965. That was the day acclaimed photojournalist Dorothea Lange died. She is celebrated for her work documenting the Great Depression for the Farm Security Bureau. Lange’s photos captured images of migrant workers, sharecroppers and the rural poor. Her iconic photo, Migrant Mother, is probably her most well known image. It depicts a despondent, Dust Bowl mother surrounded by her hungry children. Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1895. She suffered

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October 10 - Mill Workers Strike and Win

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/10/10

On this day in labor history, the year was 1912. That was the day mill workers began to walk off the job at the Phoenix and Gilbert Knitting Mills in Little Falls, New York. The strike was sandwiched between the Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts and the 1913 Paterson textile strike. American, Hungarian, Polish and Italian workers, over 70% of them women, struck against wage reductions. Their hours had just been cut from 60 hours a week to 54, and their wages adjusted

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October 9 - Mary Ann Shadd Cary is Born

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/10/09

On this day in labor history, the year was 1823. That was the day abolitionist and women’s suffragist, Mary Ann Shadd Cary was born. Her parents were free blacks of color in the slave state of Delaware. They were involved with many prominent abolitionists and active in the Underground Railroad. The family moved to Pennsylvania, where Mary and her siblings were educated in Quaker schools. As a young woman, Mary became a teacher and returned to Wilmington, Delaware where she opened a school for black

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October 8 - Locked Out and Ready to Fight

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/10/08

On this day in labor history, the year was 1933. That was the day garment factory owners locked out dressmakers in several shops throughout Los Angeles. The women garment workers, overwhelmingly Mexican, had been organizing with the ILGWU for over a month. They began conducting strikes at selected shops the previous month to press their demands. The women wanted union recognition, a thirty-five hour workweek, an end to homework, shop floor committees, a guaranteed wage and more. Historian

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October 7 - Remembering Joseph Labadie

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/10/07

On this day in labor history, the year was 1933. That was the day Detroit anarchist labor leader, Joseph Labadie died. Born in Paw Paw in 1850, Jo was born to descendants of French immigrants and grew up among Native Potawatomi peoples in southwest Michigan. He became a printer, joined the local Typographical Union No.18 and worked for the Detroit Post and Tribune. He was an early leader of the Socialist Labor Party. By 1878, Jo organized the first Knights of Labor Assembly in Detroit. He

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October 6 - Fannie Lou Hamer is Born

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/10/06

On this day in labor history, the year was 1917. That was the day Civil Rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She was the youngest of 20 children. Her parents were sharecroppers and she began working the fields at the age of six. At the age of 12, Fannie had to drop out of school to sharecrop to meet the needs of her family. Marrying in 1944, she and her husband continued to work as sharecroppers on a plantation near Ruleville. After decades of abject poverty

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October 5 - Labor Candidates Step Up

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/10/06

On this day in labor history, the year was 1886. That was the day Henry George accepted the nomination to run for mayor of New York on the United Labor Party ticket. In cities across the country, trade unionists met to found state labor parties and to hammer out political platforms for local and state elections. In New York City, ULP advocates issued the Clarendon Hall platform and nominated Henry George as the ULP candidate for the mayoral race. George had gained prominence with the 1879

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October 4 - Truman Seizes the Nation’s Oil Refineries

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/10/06

On this day in Labor History the year was 1945. That was the day President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9639. It ordered the US Navy to seize control of more than four dozen oil refineries across the country. As World War II was drawing to a close, workers in many industries were growing increasingly restless. They had seen company owners rake in record profits, and the workers felt they had not received their fair share.

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October 3 - The Father-Son Strike

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/10/03

On this day in labor history, the year was 1932. That was the day the State Militia was called into Kincaid, Illinois. 164 high school students had just walked out of the classroom, declaring themselves on strike. They were protesting the school board’s use of coal from the Peabody Coal Company. The students walked out in solidarity with their fathers, who were on strike against the Peabody Coal mine in nearby Langleyville over wage concessions. The father-son strike, as it was referred to, was

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October 2 - Striking for a Future

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/10/02

On this day in labor history, the year was 1949. That was the day Americans awoke to fears the nationwide steel strike would spread rapidly to include key fabrication plants. Half a million steel workers had joined 400,000 coal miners on strike the morning before. The miners’ resolve to defend their $100-a month pensions, instituting what John L. Lewis called the “no-day work week,” emboldened the steel workers to walk out of the mills. Within 24 hours, 96% of all steel production in the country

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October 1 - Molding the Future

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/10/01

On this day in Labor History the year was 1991. That was the day that the Pattern Makers League of North America merged with International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Have you ever heard of the Pattern Makers union? The Pattern Makers can trace their history all the way back to 1887.

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September 30 - Homestead Strikers Tried for Treason

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/09/30

On this day in Labor History the year was 1892. That was the day that 29 leaders of the Homestead Steel Strike in Pennsylvania were charged with treason against the state. If you are a regular listener to this broadcast, you have heard about this strike before.

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September 29 - Murdered in Estevan

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/09/30

On this day in Labor History the year was 1931. Canadian Coal miners, their wives, and children marched through the streets of Estevan, Saskatchewan. The miners were on strike for union recognition, and better pay and working conditions. Safety was a major concern for the 600 men and boys who worked in the mines.

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September 27 - Uprising of the 20,000

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/09/28

On this day in Labor History the year was 1909. That was the day the International Ladies Garment Workers Union began a strike against the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Eventually, female workers struck at 339 of the 352 shirtwaist manufacturing firms in New York City. The strike was referred to as the “Uprising of the 20,000.”

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September 28 - The Journey Toward Equal Treatment

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/09/28

On this day in Labor History the year was 1904. A woman was arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Women in the United States are no longer likely to be arrested for smoking cigarettes in public. They continue to face unequal treatment in the labor force.

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September 26 - Shays’ Rebellion

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/09/28

On this day in Labor History the year was 1786. Daniel Shays led a group of farmers in an armed uprising. They were angry about taxes levied by the State of Massachusetts. Shays had been a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

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September 25 - Lewis Hine is Born

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/09/28

Can a photograph bring about social reform? Lewis Hine believed it could. On this day in Labor History the year was 1874, renowned photographer, Lewis Hine, was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Hine studied sociology at the University of Chicago, Columbia Universityand New York University.

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September 24 - The Build of the Supreme Court

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/09/24

On this day in Labor History the year was 1789. Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789. This act established the plan for U.S. Supreme Court. At first the Court was comprised of just six justices appointed by the President with Senate confirmation.

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