 Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this week’s show: Lena Solow on organizing Babeland; Maritime Trades Executive Secretary-Treasurer Dan Duncan on the Seamen’s Act; plus this week’s “Cool things from the George Meany Labor Archives.” Interviews by Patrick Dixon and Alan Wierdak.
The Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, a union of mariners, fishermen and boatmen working aboard U.S. flag vessels, is founded in San Francisco - 1885 The Knights of Labor picket to protest the practices of the Southwestern Railroad system, and the company's chief, high-flying Wall Street financier Jay Gould. Some 9,000 workers walked off the job, halting service on 5,000 miles of track. The workers held out for two months, many suffering from hunger, before they finally returned to work - 1886 With the Great Depression underway, hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers demonstrated in some 30 cities and towns; close to 100,000 filled Union Square in New York City and were attacked by mounted police - 1930 The federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act is enacted - 1970 Labor history courtesy Union Communication Services. Comments are closed.
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