 Labor History Today (10/28): Cannabis organizing; 2007 Writers Guild Strike
Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this show, originally posted November 4, 2018, Patrick Dixon talks with Clara Mejía Orta about workers in the cannabis industry in California, and Writers Guild of America West president David Goodman remembers the 2007 strike by 12,000 film and television screenwriters. Plus: Bill Fletcher on the 1892 general strike that brought 20,000 black and white workers together in New Orleans; David Fernandez-Barrial on the four million jobs created by the Civil Works Administration in 1933 for Depression-era unemployed; and Dan Duncan pays tribute to the workers lost when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in 1975. Last week's show: (10/20/19): Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman November 1 Nation's first general strike for 10 hour day; Philadelphia - 1835 Thirty-seven black striking Louisiana sugar workers were murdered when Louisiana militia, aided by bands of "prominent citizens," shot unarmed workers trying to get a dollar-per-day wage. Two strike leaders were lynched - 1887 Malbone tunnel disaster in New York City; inexperienced scab motorman crashes five-car train during strike, 97 killed, 255 injured - 1918 November 2 150 arrested in IWW free speech fight, Spokane, Wash. - 1909 Railroad union leader & socialist Eugene V. Debs receives a million votes for President while imprisoned - 1920 President Reagan signs a bill designating a federal holiday honoring the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., to be observed on the third Monday of January - 1983 November 3 Striking milk drivers dump thousands of gallons of milk on New York City streets - 1921 Labor history courtesy David Prosten. photo: IWW free speech fight; photo courtesy Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout Comments are closed.
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