November 05 --
Eugene V. Debs, labor leader, socialist, three-time candidate for president and first president of the American Railway Union, 
born - 1855
born - 1855(The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene V. Debs: Eugene V. Debs was a labor activist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who captured the heart and soul of the nation’s working people. He was brilliant, sincere, compassionate and scrupulously honest. A founder of one of the nation’s first industrial unions, the American Railway Union, he went on to help launch the Industrial Workers of the World—the Wobblies. A man of firm beliefs and dedication, he ran for President of the United States five times under the banner of the Socialist Party, in 1912 earning 6 percent of the popular vote.)
Everett, Wash., massacre, at least seven Wobblies killed, 50 wounded and an indeterminate number missing - 1916
Some 12,000 television and movie writers
begin what was to become a 3-month strike against producers over
demands for an increase in pay for movies and television shows released
on DVD and for a bigger share of the revenue from work delivered over
the Internet - 2007
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