Today In Labor History

7/12/2016

Bisbee, Arizona deports Wobblies; 1,186 miners sent into desert in manure-laden boxcars. They had been fighting for improved safety and working conditions - 1917

The Screen Actors Guild holds its first meeting. Among those attending: future horror movie star (Frankenstein’s Monster) and union activist Boris Karloff - 1933
- compiled/edited by David Prosten at Union Communication Services.