Today in labor history

November 12 - SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.

Ellis Island in New York closes after serving as the gateway for 12 million immigrants from 1892 to 1924. From 1924 to 1954 it was mostly used as a detention and deportation center for undocumented immigrants - 1954

(A People’s History of the United States: If your last serious read of American history was in high school -- or even in a standard college course -- you’ll want to read this amazing account of America as seen through the eyes of its working people, women and minorities. Howard Zinn, a widely respected Boston University professor, turns history on its head with his carefully researched and dramatic recounting of America and its people -- not just its bankers, industrialists, generals and politicians.)

“Chainsaw Al” Dunlap announces he is restructuring the Sunbeam Corp. and lays off 6,000 workers -- half the workforce. Sunbeam later nearly collapsed after a series of scandals under Dunlap’s leadership that cost investors billions of dollars - 1996

Working Class Heroes

Today in #LaborHistory: Nov 12, 1815 -via- 'Rip & Ron'

Women's rights and suffrage campaigner Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was born. She spent her adult lifetime working for those things, often hand-in-hand with Susan B Anthony, and did NOT live long enough to see the ultimate victory of women voting.

"Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leader in 19th century activism for women's suffrage; Stanton often worked with Susan B. Anthony as the theorist and writer while Anthony was the public spokesperson." - from http://womenshistory.about.com/od/stantonelizabeth/a/stanton.htm
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"Almost thirty years after the Seneca Falls Convention, Stanton and Gage authored the Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States, which Anthony presented, uninvited, at the Centennial celebration in Washington in 1876." - from http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/elizabeth-cady-stanton.htm

"On her own authority, Stanton added another, which she placed in the ninth spot. It read, “Resolved: That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.” - from http://www.workingclassheroes.me/?p=1560

An inter-active site at http://www.elizabethcadystanton.org/

Another video/your choice at http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/