Bury me with my boys in Mt. Olive, and let no traitor draw breath over my grave. Such was the last wish of labor leader Mother Jones. She wanted her final resting to place to be alongside the coal miners who gave their lives in the struggle to bring fair

On this day in labor history, the year was 1965.That was the day acclaimed photojournalist Dorothea Lange died.She is celebrated for her work documenting the Great Depression for the Farm Security Bureau.Langes photos captured images of migrant work

On this day in labor history, the year was 1965.That was the day acclaimed photojournalist Dorothea Lange died.She is celebrated for her work documenting the Great Depression for the Farm Security Bureau.Langes photos captured images of migrant work

On this day in labor history, the year was 1912.That was the day mill workers began to walk off the job at the Phoenix and Gilbert Knitting Mills in Little Falls, New York.The strike was sandwiched between the Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence, Massac

On this day in labor history, the year was 1823.That was the day abolitionist and womens suffragist, Mary Ann Shadd Cary was born.Her parents were free blacks of color in the slave state of Delaware.They were involved with many prominent abolitionist

On this day in labor history, the year was 1933.That was the day garment factory owners locked out dressmakers in several shops throughout Los Angeles.The women garment workers, overwhelmingly Mexican, had been organizing with the ILGWU for over a mont

On this day in labor history, the year was 1933.That was the day Detroit anarchist labor leader, Joseph Labadie died.Born in Paw Paw in 1850, Jo was born to descendants of French immigrants and grew up among Native Potawatomi peoples in southwest Michi

On this day in labor history, the year was 1917.That was the day Civil Rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi.She was the youngest of 20 children.Her parents were sharecroppers and she began working the fields at th

On this day in labor history, the year was 1886.That was the day Henry George accepted the nomination to run for mayor of New York on the United Labor Party ticket.In cities across the country, trade unionists met to found state labor parties and to h

On this day in Labor History the year was 1945. That was the day President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9639. It ordered the US Navy to seize control of more than four dozen oil refineries across the country. As World War II was drawing to a clo