On this day in labor history, the year was 1917.That was the day Carmelita Torres led the Bath Riots at the El Paso/ Juarez border.Mexican workers traveled daily across the Sante Fe Bridge from Juar

On this day in labor history, the year was 1908.That was the day the United States Supreme Court ruled that bans on yellow-dog contracts were unconstitutional in the case, Adair v United States. T

On this day in labor history, the year was 1921.That was the day Sid Hatfield and 22 other defendants went on trial for the murder of detective Albert Felts.Hatfield was Chief of Police in Matewan,

On this day in labor history, the year was 1937.That was the day workers at the Kent Avenue Power Plant in New York City struck at Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit.The power plant served as the sole sourc

On this day in labor history, the year was 1874.That was the day Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was born.Schomburg was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance.He is also considered a premier histor

On this day in labor history, the year was 1933.That was the day 6,000 workers at Briggs Manufacturing in Detroit walked off the job and sparked a strike wave of 15,000 auto body workers.Briggs made

On this day in labor history, the year was 1959.That was the day the Susquehanna River flooded several mines throughout the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania.It marked the virtual end to coal mining in

On this day in labor history, the year was 1973.That was the day Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers struck Shell Oil over health and safety issues.OCAW had been involved in lobbying for the passage of

On this day in labor history, the year was 1937.That was the day the Flint Womens Emergency Brigades was founded.Genora Johnson, a socialist, was a main leader of the Womens Auxiliary Number 10 th

On this day in labor history, the year was 1909.That was the day Lewis Hine photographed child workers standing on spinning frames to mend threads and replace empty bobbins at the Bibb Mill No.1 in M