On this day in labor history, the year was 1917.That was the day that Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, which outlawed the transportation, manufacture and sale of alcohol.The amendment wen

On this day in labor history, the year was 1944.That was the day President Franklin Delano Roosevelt rescinded Executive Order 9066.It had forcibly relocated over 120,000 Japanese-Americans into in

On this day in labor history, the year was 1951.That was the day New York City was struck by the Great Bagel Famine.Three hundred members across thirty-two bakeries, of the Bagel Bakers of America,

On this day in labor history, the year was 1921.That was the day Kansas National Guard troops marched into Crawford County coal fields to quell the Mothers March.8000 miners went on strike that Se

On this day in labor history, the year was 1995.That was the day Machinists at Boeing ended their 69-day strike.33,000 workers won increased pay and health benefits.They also won job protections ag

On this day in labor history, the year was 1971.That was the day Namibian workers began a general strike to protest the contract labor system.As a colony of South Africa until 1990, Namibia faced ma

On this day in labor history, the year was 1947.That was the day United Mine Workers leader, John L. Lewis wrote the AFL, stating: We Disaffiliate.Lewis had had a stormy history with the American

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On this day in labor history, the year was 1953.That was the day Ralph Cordiner, president of General Electric issued his Cordiner Doctrine.It was the height of McCarthyism and the Second Red Scar