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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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January 14 - Bricklayers Fight for the Eight Hour Day

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/01/14

On this day in Labor History the year was 1868. Representatives of more than forty locals of the International Union of Bricklayers of North America gathered in New York City. It was the third annual convention of the new union.

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January 13 - The Fight for a Voice

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/01/13

On this day in Labor History the year was 1893. That was the day that 120 delegates met in Bradford, England to form the Independent Labor Party. The goal of this political party was to get more candidates that represented the interests of working people elected to the British Parliament.

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January 12 - The Push Toward Industrial Peace

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2026/01/12

On this day in Labor History the year was 1942. That was the day the President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reestablished the National War Labor Board. Just a little over a month before the United States had entered World War II.

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January 11 - Bread, Yes. But Roses Too!

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2026/01/11

On this day in Labor History the year was 1912. That was the day a strike launched one of the most iconic rallying cries of the U.S. Labor Movement. Twenty thousand, mostly women workers, in the Lawrence, Massachusetts textile mills began what came to be known as the “Bread and Roses” strike.

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January 10 - The Day the Mill Collapsed

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2026/01/10

On this day in Labor history the year was 1860. It was a day of tragedy as The Pemberton Mill collapsed in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The collapse of the five-story textile mill was one of the worst workplace disasters in U.S. history.

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January 9 - Keeping Workers Safe

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2026/01/09

Do national security concerns outweigh the right of workers to form a union? That question was being debated. On this day in Labor History, the year was 2003. The head of the Transportation Security Administration, James Loy, made the case that collective bargaining would be an impediment to the war on terrorism.

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January 8 - Taking Care of Our Own

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/01/08

On this day in Labor History the year was 1939. That was the day a new radio show began on CBS radio. The show featured some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

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January 7 - The Original Chrysler Bailout

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/01/07

On this day in Labor History the year was 1980. That was the day the President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act. The act allowed the federal government to guarantee up to one-and-a-half billion dollars in loans to aid the failing Chrysler corporation.

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January 6 - The Four Freedoms

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2026/01/06

On this day in Labor History the year was 1941. That was the day that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a speech that would become one of the defining moments of his presidency. The world was embroiled in the Second World War.

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January 5 - Embarking on a Great Creation

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2026/01/05

On this day in Labor History the year was 1933. That was the day that construction on one of the most iconic landmarks in the United States—the Golden Gate Bridge, began. The bridge was built during the height of the Great Depression.

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January 4 - Rehabilitation, Not Humiliation

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2026/01/04

On this day in Labor History the year was 1965. That was the day that 8,000 social workers went on strike in New York City. For twenty-eight days that bitter cold January these workers marched on the picket lines. They were members of AFSCME District Council 37 union and the Social Service Employees Union.

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January 3 - The Fight to Free Tom Mooney

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2026/01/03

On this day in Labor History the year was 1917. That was the day the trial against labor leader Tom Mooney began. Mooney stood accused of detonating a bomb at the "Preparedness Day," parade in San Francisco on July 22, 1916.

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January 2 - Industrial Murder at Sago Mine

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2026/01/02

On this day in Labor History the year was 2006. That was the day that a morning explosion at the Sago mine in West Virginia claimed the lives of twelve miners. The federal Mine Safety and Health administration had cited the mine more than two hundred times the year before the disaster.

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January 1 - The Liberator

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2026/01/01

On this day in Labor History the year was 1831. That was the day that William Lloyd Garrison published the first edition of “The Liberator.” The purpose of the newspaper was to push for the end of slavery in the United States.

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December 31 - The First to Enter Ellis Island

Labor History in 2:00 ·

2025/12/31

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 ·

2025/12/30

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

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2025/12/29

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 ·

2025/12/28

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 ·

2025/12/27

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 ·

2025/12/26

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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