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December 27 - FDR Takes Over the Rails
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Innhold levert av The Rick Smith Show. Alt podcastinnhold, inkludert episoder, grafikk og podcastbeskrivelser, lastes opp og leveres direkte av The Rick Smith Show eller deres podcastplattformpartner. Hvis du tror at noen bruker det opphavsrettsbeskyttede verket ditt uten din tillatelse, kan du følge prosessen skissert her https://no.player.fm/legal.
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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Manage episode 457766540 series 2894472
Innhold levert av The Rick Smith Show. Alt podcastinnhold, inkludert episoder, grafikk og podcastbeskrivelser, lastes opp og leveres direkte av The Rick Smith Show eller deres podcastplattformpartner. Hvis du tror at noen bruker det opphavsrettsbeskyttede verket ditt uten din tillatelse, kan du følge prosessen skissert her https://no.player.fm/legal.
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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×On this day in labor history, the year was 1890 Miners from a number of smaller miner unions gathered in Columbus Ohio to consolidate their ranks and form the United Mine Workers of America.
1 January 21 - Steel Workers Join the ‘46 Strike Wave 1:59
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1:59On this day in labor history, the year was 1946. US steel workers staged the greatest walkout in the history of the Steel industry. Nearly 750,000 strikers shut down more than 1,200 steel plants in 30 states.
Today in labor history, January 20, 1909, marked one of deadliest workplace disasters in Chicago history. It took place a little over a mile off-shore near 71st Street, on Lake Michigan. A group of predominantly Irish laborers were working on a tunnel to bring fresh water to the city’s growing south side.…
1 January 19 - Filipino Workers Lead Multi-Ethnic Strike Against Hawaiian Planters 1:59
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1:59On This Day in Labor History, the year was 1920. That was the day 3,000 members of the Filipino Labor Union went on strike against the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association on the island of Oahu. Plantation Bosses intentionally recruited Filipino workers, in an effort to weaken the Japanese labor force on the island. The bosses pitted one group as strikebreakers against the other.…
1 January 18 - Remembering Mary Kenney O’Sullivan 1:59
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1:59Today in labor history, January 18, 1943 marks the death of the first woman general organizer appointed by the American Federation of Labor. Mary Kenney O'Sullivan was born the only child of working-class Irish immigrants, in Hannibal, Missouri.
Today in labor history, January 17, 1915, the most popular labor song in the United States was completed in Chicago. Ralph Chaplin, an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) activist, artist and writer was in town for a demonstration against hunger. He finished writing “Solidarity Forever,” a song he had started working on the year before at a Miner’s strike in West Virginia.…
1 January 16 - Palmer Raids Victims Win Right to Legal Counsel 1:59
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1:59Today in labor history, January 16, 1920 thousands of immigrant detainees and labor activists won the basic constitutional right to consult with an attorney. These detainees were victims of the infamous Palmer Raids.
1 January 15 - Deadly Molasses Explosion of 1919 1:59
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1:59Today in labor history, January 15, 1919 marked one of the strangest industrial disasters in U.S. History. That winter day in Boston the weather shifted suddenly and temperatures began to rise. A fifty foot storage container containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses began to make strange noises.
Today in labor history, January 14,1940, Julian Bond was born in Nashville Tennessee. Bond was one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. He helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, known as “snick.”
On this day in labor history, the year was 1874. What came to be known as the “Tompkin’s Square Riot,” took place in New York City. The nation was caught in the clutches of the 1873 depression. Unemployed New Yorkers called for a public works program to put people back to work.
1 January 12 - Cox’s Army Marches on the Nation’s Capitol 1:59
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1:59On this day in labor history, the year was 1932, a very unusual army marched on Washington, D.C. Pro-labor Catholic Priest, Father James Renshaw Cox led the march from Pennsylvania to the Nation’s Capital to demand a public work’s program to put people back to work. For more information on Cox's March http://web.stanford.edu/group/progressive/cgi-bin/?p=2153…
Today in labor history, the year was 1912 this historic day marked the beginning of the “Bread and Roses Strike” of textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The strike was led by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The state Of Massachusetts passed a law reducing the work week for women and children from 56 to 54 hours.…
Today in labor history, January 10, 1914, two men were killed during a grocery store robbery in Utah. Their murders were blamed on Joe Hill a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, or the IWW, also known as the Wobblies.
1 January 9 - Southern Tenant Farmers Line Missouri Highways 1:59
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1:59Yet farm workers have played an important, and often overlooked role in labor history. Such was the case today in labor history, January 9, 1939. That was the day more than 1,500 Missouri farmers and their families began a “highway sit in.”
1 January 8 - The German Coast Uprising of 1811 1:59
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1:59Often significant days in history pass with little attention. Today in labor history, January 8, 1811, is one such day. On that day Charles Deslonde, an enslaved sugar laborer in the New Orleans territory led what became one of the largest slave revolts in American history.
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