May 15
U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Samuel Gompers and other union leaders for
supporting a boycott at the Buck Stove and Range Co. in St. Louis,
where workers were striking for a nine-hour day. A lower court had
forbidden the boycott and sentenced the unionists to prison for refusing
to obey the judge’s anti-boycott injunction - 1906
The Library Employees’ Union is founded in New York City, the first
union of public library workers in the United States. A major focus of
the union was the inferior status of women library workers and their low
salaries - 1917
The first labor bank opens in Washington, D.C., launched by officers
of the Machinists. The Locomotive Engineers opened a bank in Cleveland
later that year - 1920
Death of IWW song writer T-Bone Slim, New York City - 1942
Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathon Kwitney reports that AFL-CIO
President George Meany, Sec.-Treas. Lane Kirkland and other union
officials are among the 60 leading stockholders in the 15,000 acre Punta
Cana, Dominican Republic resort. When the partners needed help clearing
the land, the Dominican president sent troops to forcibly evict
stubborn, impoverished tobacco farmers and fishermen who had lived there
for generations, according to Kwitney’s expose - 1973
SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.
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