Episodes
Tuesday Jul 21, 2015
July 21 The More Things Change...
Tuesday Jul 21, 2015
Tuesday Jul 21, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1931. And Chicago public school teachers went home without a paycheck. The school system was broke. Property owners out of work due to the Great Depression could not pay their property taxes, which were used to fund the public schools.
Monday Jul 20, 2015
July 20 No Newspaper Today
Monday Jul 20, 2015
Monday Jul 20, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1899. That was the day New York City newsboys went on strike. A newspaper article noted: “The Newsboys’ Union has decided to tie up the World and the Journal. They have struck for better rates on the evening editions of these papers, and their demands have been refused.
Sunday Jul 19, 2015
July 19 Fighting for Women's Rights
Sunday Jul 19, 2015
Sunday Jul 19, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1848. That was the day the convention on woman’s rights began in Seneca Falls, New York. The organizers of this convention brought together some of the leading woman’s activists of the day, such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
Saturday Jul 18, 2015
July 18 Sentenced To Death
Saturday Jul 18, 2015
Saturday Jul 18, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1914. That was the day IWW songwriter, Joe Hill, was sentenced to be executed in Utah.
He was convicted of murder although the charges were likely trumped up. Hill grew up in Sweden.
Friday Jul 17, 2015
July 17 Mutiny? Really?
Friday Jul 17, 2015
Friday Jul 17, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1944. A crew of mostly black soldiers were loading munitions onto ships at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, northeast of Oakland. 320 soldiers were killed by a munitions explosion that wounded another 390 people.
Thursday Jul 16, 2015
July 16 Death in the Mine Field
Thursday Jul 16, 2015
Thursday Jul 16, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1894. Striking coal miners in Alabama killed a number of black miners. Both white and black miners were attempting to organize the southern bituminous coal fields during the 1890s.
Wednesday Jul 15, 2015
July 15 John Ball was Executed
Wednesday Jul 15, 2015
Wednesday Jul 15, 2015
On this day in Labor History and we are going all the way back to the year of 1381. That was the day John Ball, the leader of the Peasants’ Revolt in England was executed. Due to the plague, the Black Death, in 1348, many peasants had died.
Tuesday Jul 14, 2015
July 14 The Great Uprising
Tuesday Jul 14, 2015
Tuesday Jul 14, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1877. That was the day that what would come to be known as the “Great Upheaval” or “Great Uprising” began in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Railroad workers were angry. They had seen their wages cut twice in six months by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Sunday Jul 12, 2015
July 13 Founding of the Niagara Movement
Sunday Jul 12, 2015
Sunday Jul 12, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1905. That was the day that revolutionary black scholar W.E.B. DuBois helped found the Niagara Movement. It was named for the “mighty current” of change the group hoped to bring about. The initial organizing meeting was held near Niagara Falls, New York.
Saturday Jul 11, 2015
July 12 The Bisbee Deportation
Saturday Jul 11, 2015
Saturday Jul 11, 2015