On this day in labor history, the year was 1917.That was the day Illinois Governor Frank Lowden hoped to meet with striking streetcar men in an effort to end their strike.Transit workers in Springfield, the states capitol, had been off the job si

On this day in labor history, the year was 1934.That was the day Rhode Island Governor Theodore Green demanded that federal troops be sent to crush a textile strike in his state.The General Textile Strike, then in its second week, stretched a

On this day in labor history, the year was 1935.That was the day the United Rubber Workers was founded in Akron, Ohio.Akron was the rubber capital of the world.All the major companies were thereGoodyear, Firestone, Goodrich and General Tire.In Akr

On this day in labor history, the year was 2001.We pause to remember those who died in the 9/11 attacks.Of those killed, nearly a quarter were union people.Hundreds of firefighters were lost.Dozens of building trades people, including carpenters and

Labor History in 2:00https://feed.podbean.com/laborhistoryin2/feed.xmlA daily, pocket-sized history of America's working people, brought to you by The Rick Smith Show team.September 10 - Chicago Teachers Say,

On this day in labor history, the year was 1929.That was the day a mistrial was declared in the case of sixteen textile mill unionists in North Carolina.The mistrial sparked five days of anti-union vigilante violence.Textile workers at Gastonias Lor

On this day in labor history, the year was 1965.That was the day the Delano Grape Strike began in California.The strike came a year after activists had forced Congress to end the Bracero contract labor program.The Filipino Agricultural Workers Organi

On this day in labor history, the year was 2011.That was the day hundreds of ILWU strikers blocked railroad tracks near Longview, Washington.They hoped to stop grain shipments from moving in and out of the EGT Grain Terminal.Longshoremen had been sitt

On this day in labor history, the year was 1934. That was the day that became known as Bloody Thursday. Seven striking workers were shot dead and another 30 wounded at the Chiquola Mill in Honea Path, South Carolina.The Great Textile Strike of 1934 ha

On this day in labor history, the year was 1882. That was the day the first Labor Day Parade took place in New York City.But whose idea was it? According to the late Jonathan Grossman, former historian at the Department of Labor, the first Labor Day occ