On this day in labor history, the year was 1917.That was the day IWW leader Frank Little was buried in Butte, Montana.Little had been lynched on August 1, by police agents thought to be working for the despised Anaconda Copper Company.He had arrived in

On this day in labor history, the year was 1941.That was the day Michael Siegel, Business Agent for New York Citys Local 3, IBEW announced the lights would be going out on Broadway for an half an hour.Electricians had been on strike for nearly a week t

On this day in labor history, the year was 1981That was the day 13,000 workers in the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, or PATCO, went on strike.Highly stressed workers had been driven to nervous exhaustion by long hours, problematic

On this day in labor history, the year was 1934.That was the day striking Teamsters in Minneapolis defied martial law.They stopped scab trucks, forcing the release of their strike leaders.Armed with bayonets and machine guns, the National Guard had p

On this day in labor history, the year was 1934.That was the day National Guard troops in Minneapolis raided Teamsters local 574 headquarters.Over 150 were arrested, including top strike leaders Bill Brown and the Dunne Brothers, who were imprisoned i

On this day in labor history, the year was 1939.That was the day striking autoworkers in Cleveland, Ohio defended their picket lines in what is known as The Battle of East 140th Street.Members of UAW Local 45 at GMs Fisher Body plant had been on str

On this day in labor history, the year was 1866. That was the day known as the Mechanics Institute Massacre.Black and white republicans in New Orleans called a constitutional convention to consider voting rights for African-Americans.It would be another

On this day in labor history, the year was 1969.That was the day AFSCME sanitation workers in Charlotte, North Carolina walked off the job.More than 85% of the sanitation workers were black in this predominantly white Southern city. It was their third g

On this day in labor history, the year was 1917. That was the day more than 10,000 African-Americans marched down New York Citys 5th Avenue in what is known as the Silent Parade.The protest came in the aftermath of the July 2, East St. Louis race riot

On this day in labor history, the year was 1918. That was the day miners president Ginger Goodwin was shot dead in British Columbia. His murder sparked Canadas first general strike, in Vancouver the following week.Goodwin had arrived in British Columb