Episodes
Saturday Apr 22, 2023
April 22 - It’s Earth Day!
Saturday Apr 22, 2023
Saturday Apr 22, 2023
On this day in Labor History the year was 1970. That was the first observation of Earth Day. Across the United States, millions took to the streets and parks to demonstrate for clean air, water, a reduction in pollution and care for nature and the environment.
Friday Apr 21, 2023
April 21 - The Anaconda Road Massacre
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
On this day in Labor History the year was 1920. That was the day remembered in Butte, Montana as “Bloody Wednesday” or the “Anaconda Road Massacre.” Butte was in the heart of copper mining country.
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
April 20 - The Bravest of Conductors
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
On this day in Labor History the year was 1853. That was the day that Harriet Tubman led her first trip on the underground railroad, the clandestine network that helped enslaved people escape slavery and move north to freedom. One of the most remembered ‘conductors’ on the railroad, Tubman had herself escaped slavery in eastern Maryland.
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
April 19 - Terrorists Bomb Oklahoma City
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
This marks the day one of the most horrendous acts of domestic terrorism in U.S. History occurred in Oklahoma City.
A truck bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killing 168 people.
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
April 18 - Labor’s First Lawyer
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
On this day in Labor History the year was 1857. That was the day that Clarence Darrow was born in Kinsman, Ohio. Darrow was perhaps the original U.S. labor lawyer. Known to be a friend to underdogs, Darrow once supposedly said, “Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.”
Monday Apr 17, 2023
April 17 - Corporate Criminals Know No Borders
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
On this day in Labor History the year was 1912. That a day of tragedy for workers in the goldfields of Siberia. Gold miners by the Lena River in Southeast Siberia worked under brutal conditions. The Lena Gold Mining Joint Stock Company ran the mining operation. The lucrative gold fields lined the pockets of shareholders, including Russian aristocracy and British industrialists.
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
April 16 - Another Day in the Class War
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
On this day in Labor History the year was 2000. That was the beginning of a two-day rally in Washington D.C to protest the gathering of world leaders for the World Bank and The International Monetary Fund or what is known as the A-16 summit. The event was a continuation of the massive protest that disrupted the World Trade Organization’s meeting the year before in Seattle, Washington.
Saturday Apr 15, 2023
April 15 - The American Federation of Teachers is Founded
Saturday Apr 15, 2023
Saturday Apr 15, 2023
On this day in Labor History the year was 1916. That was day that the American Federation of Teachers was founded at a meeting at the City Club in downtown Chicago. Three Chicago teachers groups helped to organize the meeting. They were convinced that in order to improve working conditions for teachers they would need to formally join the labor movement.
Friday Apr 14, 2023
April 14 - Agricultural Workers Risk Everything to Organize
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
On this day in Labor History the year was 1930. That was the day that 114 agricultural laborers in California’s Imperial Valley paid a harsh price for joining together to try to improve their working conditions. The Great Depression was worsening the already difficult conditions faced by California farm laborers.
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
April 13 - The Laborers Union is Founded
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
On this day in Labor History the year was 1903. That was the year the day that twenty-five delegates from seventeen cities gathered in Washington, D.C. to discuss forming a union for laborers. General laborers, who often performed some of the most back-breaking work on projects like digging canals or surfacing streets, were often blocked from joining craft unions as full members.