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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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September 4 - Reconstruction Crumbles in Mississippi

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/09/04

On this day in labor history the year was 1875. That was the day anti-black violence erupted into a two-day massacre in Clinton, Mississippi. As many as 2500 Black Republicans and their families met at Moss Hill, a former plantation destroyed during the Civil War. The day was one of festivities and political speeches ahead of the fall elections. The County Republican Party invited local Democrats to debate. The Democratic State Senatorial candidate did address the crowd. The editor of a local

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September 3 - The Progressive Miners of America is...

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/09/03

On this day in labor history the year was 1932. That was the day the Progressive Miners of America wrapped up their founding convention in Gillespie, Illinois. Fed up with concessions and what they viewed as a heavy-handed, anti-democratic rule by UMW president John L. Lewis, Illinois miners met to break decisively. Area miners were active in radical politics and many supported currents within the Socialist and Communist movements. That July, Lewis opened the contract and agreed to a 20% pay

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September 2 - Workers Trade Strike Power for Peace

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/09/03

On this day in labor history, the year was 1910. That was the day the ‘Protocol of Peace’ brought an end to the cloak makers strike in New York City. The garment industry had been rocked by the ‘Uprising of the 20,000’ months earlier. Young women had struck hundreds of small shops over pay, recognition and working conditions. They won ILGWU recognition in all but a handful of shops. 60,000 cloak makers in the city were inspired to walkout of the sweatshops that July. The mostly male strike

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September 1 - The 1934 Textile Workers General Strike

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/09/03

On this day in labor history, the year was 1934. That was the day nearly half a million textile workers, from Maine to Alabama, walked off the job in a general strike. The United Textile Workers had launched an organizing campaign the year before. Within months their membership had grown from 15,000 to well over 250,000. Working conditions and pay were abysmal. The normal workweek averaged 55 hours. Child labor was widespread and workers were always in fear of mill closings, pay cuts and firings

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August 31 - The Final Battle of the Atlanta Campaign

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2024/08/31

On this day in labor history, the year was 1864.That was the day the final battle of the Atlanta Campaign began with the Battle of Jonesborough. The Union had been embroiled in a civil war with Confederate forces to end the slave labor system for three and a half years. It had been a difficult summer. Battles were increasingly bloody, with casualties on both sides numbering in the tens of thousands. Criticisms intensified against key Union generals like Sherman and Grant. Pressure mounted

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August 30 - Luisa Moreno is Born

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/30

On this day in labor history, the year was 1907. That was the day labor leader Luisa Moreno was born in Guatemala City. As a young woman, she fought for the admission of women into Guatemalan universities. After attending journalism school in Mexico City, Luisa moved to New York with her husband and worked as a seamstress. Outraged by low pay, racial discrimination and poor working conditions, she led organizing efforts on the job. During the Depression she worked as a full-time union organizer,

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August 29 - Defense Industry Workers Strike on the...

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/29

On this day in labor history, the year was 1941. That was the day 2500 steel workers at the Pressed Steel Car Company near McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania walked off the job. It was the second walkout in two weeks. Workers effectively shut down production of armor plate for the Navy, shell forgings for the Army and railroad cars used to transport military materiel. The company had gone back on promises of holding a collective bargaining election. Steelworkers Organizing Committee sub-regional

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August 28 - Filipino Lettuce Workers Strike

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/28

On this day in labor history, the year was 1934. That was the day 7,000 white and Filipino lettuce workers in California’s Salinas Valley walked out on strike. Salinas was the lettuce capital of the world. The division of labor in the Valley was largely ethnically based. Filipinos did much of the field labor, while whites worked in the packing sheds. At the time, Filipinos made up 40% of the total agricultural workforce in the Salinas Valley. They had founded the Filipino Labor Union a year

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August 27 - Truman Seizes the Railroads

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/27

On this day in Labor History the year was 1950. At 4 pm that day the US Army completed its take-over of the country’s railroads. They were acting on the orders of President Truman.

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August 26 - Fannie Sellins Martyred

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/26

On this day in Labor History the year was 1919. That was the day that Fannie Sellins and Joseph Starzeleski were murdered while standing up for workers’ rights. Fannie was born in New Orleans, and then married a garment worker in St. Louis.

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August 25 - The Georges Fight Back

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/25

On this day in Labor History the year was 1925. 500 African American sleeping car porters gathered at the Elks Hall at 129th Street in Harlem. The meeting was called by A. Philip Randolph.

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August 24 - Weaponizing the War Against Labor

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/25

The year was 1877. That summer during what came to be known as “The Great Upheaval,” police, the US Army, and the National Guard brutally crushed a national railroad strike. The simmering anger of working people had many elected officials and industrialists on edge.

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August 23 - The Commission on Industrial Relations

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/23

On this day in Labor History the year was 1912. That was the day the US Congress approved the formation of the Commission on Industrial Relations. In the early 1900s the terrible work conditions and entrenched resistance to union organizing had led to increasing labor unrest.

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August 22 - Making the Skies Friendlier

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/23

On this day in Labor History the year was 1945. That was the day five women working for United Airlines formed the first union for airline stewardess. Those women were Ada Brown, Frances Hall, Edith Lauterbach, Sally Thometz and Sally Watt.

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August 22 - Making the Skies Friendlier

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/23

On this day in Labor History the year was 1945. That was the day five women working for United Airlines formed the first union for airline stewardess. Those women were Ada Brown, Frances Hall, Edith Lauterbach, Sally Thometz and Sally Watt.

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August 21 - Nat Turner’s Insurrection

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/23

On this day in Labor History the year was 1831. That was the year Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Southhampton, Virginia. From a young age Turner believed he had a purpose ordained by God. Turner had learned to read from one of his master’s sons.

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August 20 - The War on Poverty

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/20

On this day in Labor History the year was 1964. President Lyndon B. Johnson gave a mid-morning address in the Rose Garden of the White House. He was there to sign the Economic Opportunity Act that launched what became known as Johnson’s War on Poverty.

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August 19 - Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/20

On this day in Labor History the year was 1909. That was the day that a committee of the Industrial Workers of the World in Spokane, Washington published the first edition of the “Little Red Song Book.” The collection were “Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent.”

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August 18 - WEVD Radio New York

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/18

On this day in Labor History the year was 1927. That was the day that a new radio station began to broadcast on the New York dial. The station’s call letters were WEVD. It stood for Eugene V. Debs. The radio station was founded to honor the recently deceased Socialist and labor leader.

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August 17 - Jailed for Having an Idea

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2024/08/17

On this day in Labor History the year 1918. That was the day that 101 leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or Wobblies were convicted in a Chicago Federal Court. Their alleged crime?

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