First strike for 10 hour day, by Boston carpenters - 1825
James Oppenheim’s poem “Bread and Roses” published in IWW newspaper “Industrial Solidarity” - 1946
President Dwight Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10450: Security Requirements for Government Employment. The order listed “sexual perversion” as a condition for firing a federal employee and for denying employment to potential applicants - 1953
[Reviving the Strike: How Working People can Regain Power and Transform America:
If the American labor movement is to rise again, says author Joe Buns,
it will not be as a result of electing Democrats, the passage of
legislation, or improved methods of union organizing. Rather, workers
will need to rediscover the power of the strike. Not the ineffectual
strike of today, where employees meekly sit on picket lines waiting for
scabs to take their jobs, but the type of strike capable of grinding
industries to a halt—the kind employed up until the 1960s. In the UCS
bookstore now.]SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.
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