Episodes
Sunday Jul 21, 2019
July 21 - The More Things Change...
Sunday Jul 21, 2019
Sunday Jul 21, 2019
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.
Saturday Jul 20, 2019
July 20 - No Newspaper Today
Saturday Jul 20, 2019
Saturday Jul 20, 2019
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.
Friday Jul 19, 2019
July 19 - Fighting for Women’s Rights
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
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.
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
July 18 - Sentenced to Death
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
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.
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
July 17 - Port Chicago Disaster
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
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.
Monday Jul 15, 2019
July 16 - Death in the Mine Field
Monday Jul 15, 2019
Monday Jul 15, 2019
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.
Monday Jul 15, 2019
July 15 - The Execution of John Ball
Monday Jul 15, 2019
Monday Jul 15, 2019
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.
Sunday Jul 14, 2019
July 14 - The Great Uprising
Sunday Jul 14, 2019
Sunday Jul 14, 2019
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.
Saturday Jul 13, 2019
July 13 - Founding of the Niagara Movement
Saturday Jul 13, 2019
Saturday Jul 13, 2019
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.
Friday Jul 12, 2019
July 12 - The Bisbee Deportation
Friday Jul 12, 2019
Friday Jul 12, 2019
On this day in Labor History the year was 1917. That was the day that miners in Bisbee, Arizona were rounded up, taken by train and left in the desert on the New Mexico/Arizona border.