This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Sharecroppers’ struggles for rights and power. Last week’s show: Socialist fairy tales.
October 14 International Working People's Association founded in Pittsburgh, Penn. – 1883 October 15 Pres. Woodrow Wilson signs the Clayton Antitrust Act – often referred to as "Labor’s Magna Carta" – establishing that unions are not "conspiracies" under the law. It for the first time freed unions to strike, picket and boycott employers. In the years that followed, however, numerous state measures and negative court interpretations weakened the law – 1914 October 16 Abolitionist John Brown leads 18 men, including five free blacks, in an attack on the Harper's Ferry ammunition depot, the beginning of guerilla warfare against slavery - 1859 - David Prosten Comments are closed.
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