On this day in labor history, the year was 1908.That was the day the song We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years, first appeared.Originally titled The Cry of Toil, it was printed in the Industrial

On this day in labor history, the year was 2013.That was the day the West Fertilizer Company in West, Texas caught fire and exploded, killing 15 and injuring more than 260.Of those killed, 12 were e

On this day in labor history, the year was 1854.That was the day wealthy Populist and labor advocate Jacob Coxey was born.He grew up in Danville, Pennsylvania and worked as a stationary engineer i

On this day in labor history, the year was 1919.That was the day the telephone girls, as they were called, walked out on strike against New England Bell, essentially crippling communications in five

On this day in labor history, the year was 1975.That was the day union representatives at Bunker Hill Mining Company in Kellogg, Idaho were notified of a policy change.The lead and zinc producer had

On this day in labor history, the year was 1873. That was the day the single-most deadly incident of the Reconstruction Era occurred, known as the Colfax Massacre.As many as 150 black Republicans in

On this day in labor history, the year was 1937.That was the day the United States Supreme Court decided the case, National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. This case

On this day in labor history, the year was 1980. That was the day New York City transit workers in TWU Local 100 ended their 11-day walkout.The strike occurred in the context of hard times for New Y

On this day in labor history, the year was 1917.That was the day as many as 139 workers, mostly women, were killed in an explosion at the Eddystone artillery shell plant, just outside Philadelphia.T

On this day in labor history, the year was 1865.That was the day Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia.Grants Union army successfully cut off Confederate forces at t