This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The Hardhat Riot. Last week’s show: We Were There; Pins and Needles; Dust for Blood. Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day - 1852 Sam Walton, founder of the huge and bitterly anti-union Wal-Mart empire, born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. He once said that his priority was to “Buy American,” but Wal-Mart is now the largest U.S. importer of foreign-made goods—often produced under sweatshop conditions - 1918 “Battle of Wall Street,” police charge strikers lying down in front of stock exchange doors, 43 arrested - 1948 Comments are closed.
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