This week’s Labor History Today podcast: A cold wind and a hot summer sit-down. Last week’s show: Tragedy and Resistance at Port Chicago Naval Magazine. photo: 1948 government cafeteria worker strike. July 29 A preliminary delegation from Mother Jones' March of the Mill Children from Philadelphia to Pres. Theodore Roosevelt's summer home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, publicizing the harsh conditions of child labor, arrives today. They are not allowed through the gates - 1903 Models picketed to announce that beer was back. Twenty-five young women marched in front of the Blatz Brewing Co. on July 29, 1953, to celebrate the return of the brand of beer, then joined a street celebration at E. Highland Ave. and N. Broadway, where a band played for dancers. The events marked the end of a 76 day strike by some 7,100 Milwaukee brewery workers. Following a five-year table grape boycott, Delano-area growers file into the United Farm Workers union hall in Delano, Calif. to sign their first union contracts - 1970 July 30 President Lyndon Johnson signs the Medicare Act, providing federally-funded health insurance for senior citizens - 1964 Former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears. Presumed to be dead, his body has never been found - 1975 United Airlines agrees to offer domestic-partner benefits to employees and retirees worldwide - 1999 July 31 Members of the National Football League Players Association begin what is to be a two-day strike, their first. The issues: pay, pensions, the right to arbitration and the right to have agents - 1970 Fifty-day baseball strike ends - 1981 The Great Shipyard Strike of 1999 ends after Steelworkers at Newport News Shipbuilding ratify a breakthrough agreement which nearly doubles pensions, increases security, ends inequality, and provides the highest wage increases in company and industry history to nearly 10,000 workers at the yard. The strike lasted 15 weeks - 1999 Comments are closed.
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