Today in labor history: Palmer Raids victims win basic right
Today in labor history, Jan. 16, 1920, thousands of immigrants, arrested during the vicious Palmer Raids, won a basic constitutional right: legal representation.
"Solidarity Forever" completed Jan. 15, 1915
On January 15, 1915 in Chicago there was a big march on City Hall by some 1,500 jobless and hungry people demanding relief.
Today in labor history: 20,000 GE workers strike over health care
On Jan. 14, 2003, nearly 20,000 General Electric workers went out on strike at 48 plants in 33 states.
Today in labor history: Bread and Roses strike
On this day in 1912 the "Bread and Roses" textile strike began in Lawrence, Mass.
Today in Labor History: Tenant farmers sit down in highway
On this day in 1939, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union led 1,700 farm families in the Missouri Highway Sit-down.
Today in labor history: New Orleans slave uprising
The revolt consisted of somewhere between 300-500 people.
Today in labor history: Labor radical Tom Mooney freed
Radical labor activist Tom Mooney, accused of a murder by bombing in San Francisco, was pardoned and freed after 22 years in San Quentin.
Today in labor history: Starving farmers demand food
In the depths of the Great Depression, some 500 farmers marched into the town of England, Ark., to demand food for their starving families.
Today in Labor History: first black speaker of Mississippi legislature elected
On this day, in 1872 John Roy Lynch, an African American former slave, was elected speaker of the Mississippi House.
Today in Labor History: Miners' union formed
It was the first attempt to found a national miner's union.
