The Toronto Trades and Labour Council endorses the principle of equal pay for equal work between men and women - 1882
Eight thousand workers strike at Youngstown Sheet & Tube. The following day the strikers’ wives and other family members join in the protest. Company guards use tear gas bombs and fire into the crowd; three strikers are killed, 25 wounded - 1916
Today in #LaborHistory: Jan 6, 1878 -via- 'Rip and Ron'
Author-poet Carl Sandburg was born on this date in Galesburg, Illinois. Sandburg worked as a labor organizer, published in the International Socialist Review and later worker for the Chicago Daily News. The Feds accused him of being a Bolshevik sympathizer, when he was actually just a working class sympathizer. Sandburg died on July 22, 1967.
"He grew up in the fields of Illinois, traveled the box cars of the Midwest, campaigned for the Socialist party, was film critic and Chicago advocate." - from www.carlsandburg.net/
"A Socialist sympathizer at that point in his life, Sandburg then worked for the Social-Democrat Party in Wisconsin and later acted as secretary to the first Socialist mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912." - from www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/28
"He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat." - from www.poemhunter.com/carl-sandburg/
Author-poet Carl Sandburg was born on this date in Galesburg, Illinois. Sandburg worked as a labor organizer, published in the International Socialist Review and later worker for the Chicago Daily News. The Feds accused him of being a Bolshevik sympathizer, when he was actually just a working class sympathizer. Sandburg died on July 22, 1967.
"He grew up in the fields of Illinois, traveled the box cars of the Midwest, campaigned for the Socialist party, was film critic and Chicago advocate." - from www.carlsandburg.net/
"A Socialist sympathizer at that point in his life, Sandburg then worked for the Social-Democrat Party in Wisconsin and later acted as secretary to the first Socialist mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912." - from www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/28
"He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat." - from www.poemhunter.com/carl-sandburg/
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