On this day in Labor History the year was 1925. 500 African American sleeping car porters gathered at the Elks Hall at 129th Street in Harlem. The meeting was called by A. Philip Randolph.

The year was 1877.That summer during what came to be known as The Great Upheaval, police, the US Army, and the National Guard brutally crushed a national railroad strike.The simmering anger of working people had many elected officials and industrial

On this day in Labor History the year was 1912. That was the day the US Congress approved the formation of the Commission on Industrial Relations.In the early 1900s the terrible work conditions and entrenched resistance to union organizing had led to i

On this day in Labor History the year was 1945.That was the day five women working for United Airlines formed the first union for airline stewardess. Those women were Ada Brown, Frances Hall, Edith Lauterbach, Sally Thometz and Sally Watt.

On this day in Labor History the year was 1831.That was the year Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Southhampton, Virginia.From a young age Turner believed he had a purpose ordained by God. Turner had learned to read from one of his masters sons.

On this day in Labor History the year was 1964.President Lyndon B. Johnson gave a mid-morning address in the Rose Garden of the White House.He was there to sign the Economic Opportunity Act that launched what became known as Johnsons War on Poverty.

On this day in Labor History the year was 1909. That was the day that a committee of the Industrial Workers of the World in Spokane, Washington published the first edition of the Little Red Song Book.The collection were Songs to Fan the Flames of Dis

On this day in Labor History the year was 1927. That was the day that a new radio station began to broadcast on the New York dial.The stations call letters were WEVD. It stood for Eugene V. Debs.The radio station was founded to honor the recently de

On this day in Labor History the year 1918.That was the day that 101 leaders of theIndustrial Workers of the World(IWW) or Wobblies were convicted in aChicago Federal Court.Their alleged crime?

On this day in Labor History the year was 1894.That was the birthday of the long-time leader of the AFL-CIO.George Meany grew up in the Bronx, with his Irish Catholic family.