June 21 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
In England, a compassionate parliament
declares that children can't be required to work more than 12 hours a
day. And they must have an hour’s instruction in the Christian Religion
every Sunday and not be required to sleep more than two in a bed - 1802
(Kids at Work: Your heart will be broken by this exceptional book’s photographs of children at backbreaking, often life-threatening
work, and the accompanying commentary by author Russell Freedman.
Photographer Lewis Hine—who himself died in poverty in 1940—did as much,
and perhaps more, than any social critic in the early part of the 20th
century to expose the abuse of children, as young as three and four, by
American capitalism.)
Ten miners accused of being militant "Molly Maguires" are hanged in
Pennsylvania. A private corporation initiated the investigation of the
10 through a private detective agency. A private police force arrested
them, and private attorneys for the coal companies prosecuted them. "The
state provided only the courtroom and the gallows," a judge said many
years later - 1877
The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the right of unions to publish
statements urging members to vote for a specific congressional
candidate, ruling that such advocacy is not a violation of the Federal
Corrupt Practices Act - 1948
An estimated 100,000 unionists and other supporters march in solidarity with striking Detroit News and Detroit Free Press newspaper workers - 1997
Friday, June 21, 2013
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