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Here’s today’s labor history: in 1944, two ammunition ships exploded at Port Chicago, California, killing 322, including 202 African-Americans assigned by the Navy to handle explosives. It was the worst home-front disaster of World War II. The resulting refusal of 258 African-Americans to return to the dangerous work underpinned the trial and conviction of 50 of the men in what is called the Port Chicago Mutiny. Today’s labor quote is by writer Dashiell Hammett: “Be in favor of what's good for the workers and against what isn't. Follow that, and you may not be the most brilliant person in the world, but at least you'll be able to hold your head up when you look at yourself in the mirror.”
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For today’s local labor news and updates, go to dclabor.org; for up-to-date listings for labor activities, click on calendar.
Here’s today’s labor history: In 1919, ten thousand workers struck Chicago's International Harvester operations. On this date in 1920, martial law was declared in a strike by longshoremen in Galveston, Texas. And in 1934, the San Francisco Longshoreman's strike spread, becoming a four-day general strike. Today’s labor quote is by Harry Bridges, one of the leaders of the 1934 longshoreman’s strike: ““Anybody want to know where to put your faith for the future, for a good living? Put it in the labor movement, cause there ain’t no other place to put it.” For today’s local labor news and updates, go to dclabor.org; for up-to-date listings for labor activities, click on calendar.
Here’s today’s labor history: In 1917, 50,000 lumberjacks struck for the eight-hour day. On this date in 1931, Robert Gray, an African-American sharecropper and leader of the Share Croppers Union, was murdered in Cap Hill, Alabama. And in 1959, a half-million steelworkers began what was to become a 116-day strike that shuttered nearly every steel mill in the country. Management wanted to dump contract language limiting its ability to change the number of workers assigned to a task or to introduce new work rules or machinery that would result in reduced hours or fewer employees. Today’s labor quote is by US Senator Bernie Sanders: "The average American today is underpaid, overworked and stressed out as to what the future will bring for his or her children. For many, the American dream has become a nightmare." For today’s local labor news and updates, go to dclabor.org; for up-to-date listings for labor activities, click on calendar.
Here’s today’s labor history: In 1869, farmworkers set fire to a barn housing a combine harvester that threatened to undermine their livelihood harvesting grain in the Livermore Valley. On this date in 1877, The Great Uprising nationwide railway strike began in Martinsburg, West Virginia after railroad workers were hit with their second pay cut in a year. In the following days, strike riots spread through 17 states. The next week, federal troops were called out to force an end to the strike. In 1912, Woody Guthrie, writer of "This Land is Your Land" and "Union Maid," was born in Okemah, Oklahoma. And in 1921, Italian immigrants and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Massachusetts of murder and payroll robbery – unfairly, most historians agree – after a two-month trial, and were eventually executed. Fifty years after their deaths the state's governor issued a proclamation saying they had been treated unfairly and that "any disgrace should be forever removed from their names." Today’s labor quote is by Woody Guthrie: While we're on the subject of hard work I just wanted to say that I always was a man to work I was born working and I worked my way up by hard work I ain't never got nowhere yet but I got there by hard work Work of the hardest kind I been down and I been out And I've been busted, disgusted and couldn't be trusted I worked my way up and I worked my way down. |
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