Striking miners at Tracy City, Tenn., capture their mines and free 300 state convict strikebreakers. The convicts had been "leased" to mineowners by officials in an effort to make prisons self-supporting and make a few bucks for the state. The practice started in 1866 and lasted for 30 years - 1892
Newspaper Guild members begin three-month strike of Hearst-owned Seattle Post-Intelligencer, shutting the publication down in their successful fight for union recognition - 1936
Civil rights leader and union president A. Philip Randolph strongly protests the AFL-CIO Executive Council's failure to endorse the August 28 "March on Washington" - 1963
[A Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait is a fascinating biography of a great American hero. Randolph (1889-1979) was not only the most famous African American labor leader of his time, he was also a key figure in the civil rights movement. Throughout his career, Randolph used his power and reputation to push for equal rights and pay for African Americans. Randolph tangled at times with other labor leaders but his 1955 election as an AFL-CIO vice-president was recognition of his life-long struggle against racial discrimination in the labor movement. Read this book and you will be grateful for this remarkable man in our midst. In the UCS bookstore now.]
Five construction workers are killed 16 injured when the uncompleted roof of the Rosemont (Ill.) Horizon arena collapses - 1979
SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.
Today in #LaborHistory: Aug 13 -via- unionist.com
Newspaper Guild members begin three-month strike of Hearst-owned Seattle Post-Intelligencer, shutting the publication down in their successful fight for union recognition - 1936
"The P-I strike began on the date in focus here, when 35 journalists employed by the P-I (half the paper’s newsroom staff at the time) walked off the job in response to the paper’s decision to fire two longtime newsroom employees as punishment for joining the American Newspaper Guild." from http://www.eatthestate.org/august-13-1936-the-seattle-post-intelligencer-strike/
"The strikers were members of the fledgling American Newspaper Guild led by the nationally famous journalist Heywood Broun. The strike protested arbitrary dismissals and assignment changes and other "efficiency" moves by the newspaper." - from http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2495
"The striking employees of the Seattle Post Intelligencer, produced The Guild Daily during the 105 day strike against the Hearst owned newspaper in 1936." - from http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/laborpress/GuildDaily.htm
Newspaper Guild members begin three-month strike of Hearst-owned Seattle Post-Intelligencer, shutting the publication down in their successful fight for union recognition - 1936
"The P-I strike began on the date in focus here, when 35 journalists employed by the P-I (half the paper’s newsroom staff at the time) walked off the job in response to the paper’s decision to fire two longtime newsroom employees as punishment for joining the American Newspaper Guild." from http://www.eatthestate.org/august-13-1936-the-seattle-post-intelligencer-strike/
"The strikers were members of the fledgling American Newspaper Guild led by the nationally famous journalist Heywood Broun. The strike protested arbitrary dismissals and assignment changes and other "efficiency" moves by the newspaper." - from http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2495
"The striking employees of the Seattle Post Intelligencer, produced The Guild Daily during the 105 day strike against the Hearst owned newspaper in 1936." - from http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/laborpress/GuildDaily.htm
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