Wobbly Ralph Chaplin, in Chicago for a demonstration against hunger, completes the writing of the labor anthem “Solidarity Forever” on this date in 1915. He’d begun writing it in 1914 during a miner’s strike in Huntington, W. Va. The first verse:
When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
But the union makes us strong - 1915
Martin Luther King Jr. born - 1929The CIO miners' union in the Grass Valley area of California strikes for higher wages, union recognition, and the 8-hour day. The strike was defeated when vigilantes and law enforcement officials expelled 400 miners and their families from the area - 1938
The Pentagon, to this day the largest office building in the world, is dedicated just 16 months after groundbreaking. At times of peak employment 13,000 workers labored on the project - 1943
Today, on Working Class Heroes; a look at a culture of corporate corruption and the damage done to the working class.
Working Class Heroes » Corporate Extortion: A 21st Century Business Imperative?
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should come as no surprise to anyone that corporations pit local
governments against one another in an effort to secure lucrative
financial incentives to bring their business to (or remain in) the
competing localities. Executives lobby hard at the city, county, and
state levels for tax
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