Some 20,000 textile mill strikers in Paterson, N.J., gather on the green in front of the house of Pietro Botto, the socialist mayor of nearby Haledon, to receive encouragement by novelist Upton Sinclair, journalist John Reed and speakers from the Wobblies. Today, the Botto House is home to the American Labor Museum - 1913
(Lyddie: Lyddie
Worthen is a 13-year-old farm girl who takes a job in the textile mills
of Lowell, Massachusetts, when hard times hit her family. Six days a
week from dawn to dusk she and the other girls run weaving looms in the
murky dust-and lint-filled factory. Lyddie learns to read—and to handle
the menacing overseer. But when the working conditions begin to affect
her friends' health, she has to make a choice. Will she speak up for
better working conditions and risk her job—and her dream of reuniting
her family? Or will she stay quiet until it is perhaps too late? A
wonderful story of strength, courage and solidarity.)UAW Local 833 strikes the Kohler bathroom fixtures company in Kohler, Wisc. The strike ends six years later after Kohler is found guilty of refusing to bargain, agrees to reinstate 1,400 strikers and pay them $4.5 million in back pay and pension credits - 1954
Martin Luther King Jr. returns to Memphis to stand with striking AFSCME sanitation workers. This evening, he delivers his famous "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in a church packed with union members and others. He is assassinated the following day - 1968
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Martin Luther King Jr. returns to Memphis to stand with striking AFSCME
sanitation workers. This evening, he delivers his famous "I've Been to
the Mountaintop" speech in a church packed with union members and
others. He is assassinated the following day - 1968 ~De
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