On this day in Labor History the year was 1908.That was the day that an explosion at the coal mine in Marianna, in Washington County Pennsylvania claimed the lives of 154 miners.It was one of the

On this day in Labor History the year was 1910.That was the day when thousands of people came to see the location where a fire had ravaged a sweatshop in Newark, New Jersey.The day before, at leas

On this day in Labor History the year was 1829.That was the day that William Sylvis was born in Armagh, Pennsylvania.Growing up he was one of twelve children.His father was a wagon maker and tau

On this day in Labor History the year was 1947.That was the day that front page of the Chicago Tribune printed a banner headline Newspaper Printers Quit!1,600 members of the International Typogra

On this day in Labor History the year was 1947 that was the day that the US House of Representatives found ten Hollywood writers and directors in contempt for their alleged ties to Communism.The dec

On this day in Labor History the year was 1887. That was the day of the Thibodaux Massacre, in Louisiana just southwest of New Orleans.Thousands of African American sugar cane workers had gone out o

On this day in Labor History the year was 1919. That Friday thousands of workers in the Chicago Stockyards walked off the job. A serious union organizing drive had been underway in the yards since Jun

On this day in Labor History the year was 1934. The Teamster members of Local 574, in Minneapolis were back out on strike. Their strike had begun two months prior on May 16. The striking Teamsters had

On this day in Labor History the year was 1862. That was the day that black-rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was the oldest of eight children. Wells wen

On this day in Labor History the year was 1931. That was the day that Ralph Gray was attacked for trying to organize black farmers. Gray was a born to a large African American family in Alabama. Livin