This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Red Jerseys in Detroit. Last week’s show: Julia Reichert: “Documentarian of the Working Class”. December 23 AFL officers are found in contempt of court for urging a labor boycott of Buck's Stove and Range Co. in St Louis, MO where the Metal Polishers were striking for a 9-hour day – 1908 December 24 72 copper miners’ children die in panic caused by a company stooge at Calumet, Mich., who shouted “fire” up the stairs into a crowded hall where the children had gathered. They were crushed against closed doors when they tried to flee – 1913 December 25 A dynamite bomb destroyed a portion of the Llewellyn Ironworks in Los Angeles, where a bitter strike was in progress – 1910 David Prosten Comments are closed.
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