December 27 -- SOURCE: Union
Communications Services, Inc.
President Roosevelt seizes the
railroads to avert a nationwide strike. His decision to temporarily
place the railroads under the “supervision” of the War Department
prompts the five railroad brotherhoods to agree to his offer to
arbitrate the wage dispute - 1943
December 26
Knights of Labor founded. Constitution bars from membership “parasites,” including stockbrokers and lawyers - 1869
(There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America is
a sympathetic, thoughtful and highly readable history of the American
labor movement that traces unionism from the textile mills of Lowell,
Massachusetts in the 1820s to organized labor’s decline in the 1980s and
the struggle for survival and growth today.)
December 25
A dynamite bomb destroyed a portion of the Llewellyn Ironworks in Los Angeles, where a bitter strike was in progress - 1910
December 24
Seventy
two copper miners’ children die in panic caused by a company stooge at
Calumet, Mich., who shouted “fire” up the stairs into a crowded hall
where the children had gathered. They were crushed against closed doors
when they tried to flee - 1913
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Today in Labor History
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