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This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Feathers and Pennies - the 1888 Matchgirls and us. Last week's show: Rich Trumka on “Art is why they remember our struggles.”
29 strike leaders are charged with treason – plotting "to incite insurrection, rebellion & war against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" – for daring to strike the Carnegie Steel Co. in Homestead, Pa. Jurors refuse to convict them - 1892 70-year-old Mother Jones organizes the wives of striking miners in Arnot, Pa., to descend on the mine with brooms, mops and clanging pots and pans. They frighten away the mules and their scab drivers. The miners eventually won their strike - 1899 Railroad shopmen in 28 cities strike the Illinois Central Railroad and the Harriman lines for an 8 hour day, improved conditions and union recognition, but railroad officials obtain sweeping injunctions against them and rely on police and armed guards to protect strikebreakers - 1915 Black farmers meet in Elaine, Ark. to establish the Progressive Farmers and Householders Union to fight for better pay and higher cotton prices. They are shot at by a group of whites, and return the fire. News of the confrontation spread and a riot ensued, leaving at least 100, perhaps several hundred blacks dead and 67 indicted for inciting violence - 1919 - David Prosten. If your local has lost someone to COVID-19, you can honor their memory at the “In America: Remember” art exhibition now blanketing the National Mall. Visitors are invited to personalize flags for someone they have lost. Those who cannot visit in person can dedicate a flag on this website until Thursday, September 30th, and it will appear in physical form on the National Mall. With over 660,000 white flags, the exhibition shows “the magnitude of our loss as a nation, while honoring each person who has died from COVID-19.” You can visit this immense field of flags on the National Mall through this Sunday, October 3.  click here for complete and latest listings
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report Wednesdays with Warner: Wed, September 29, 8:15am – 9:15am Join us for Week 28 of our weekly breakfast vigil at the picnic table at Windmill Hills Park, 500 South Lee St., Alexandria, to celebrate the fact that the Democratic Party of Virginia adopted a Resolution urging Senator Warner to sign on to the PRO Act. DC LERA: Federal Reserve Talk with Tom Barkin: Wed, September 29, 9:30am – 10:30am Join DC LERA for a conversation with Federal Reserve Board Bank of Richmond President Tom Barkin. FREE; register here WEBINAR: Hilton Hotels is Playing Dirty with its Housekeepers: Wed, September 29, 2pm – 3pm CLICK TO REGISTER. Hosted by The Catholic Labor Network NoVA Volunteer Phone Bank: Wed, September 29, 6pm – 8pm For more info contact Bob Zabel. [email protected].317-489-2501 Fairfax County Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, September 29, 7pm – 8pm Meeting of Fairfax County union members and friends of labor. Special guest Julie Hunter, Virginia AFL-CIO Political Director, will speak about the elections. Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, September 29, 7:30pm – 8:30pm Meeting of Alexandria union members and friends of labor. Contact [email protected] for the link. The Brookings Institution has voluntarily recognized their staff’s union, Brookings United, and their selection of the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU) Local 70, IFPTE to be their collective bargaining representative. “Our strength as contributors is rooted in our shared mission of promoting workplace diversity and inclusion, ensuring Brookings is competitive among peer organizations, and expanding work opportunities for staff to better prepare the next generation of leaders,” said the Brookings United Organizing Committee in a statement. “This union is a much-needed step forward in achieving those goals.” Read more here.
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