Today in Labor History

October 29  --  Union Communications Services, Inc.

Japanese immigrant and labor advocate Katsu Goto is strangled to death, his body then strung from an electric pole, on the Big Island of Hawaii by thugs hired by plantation owners.  They were outraged over Goto’s work on behalf of agricultural workers and because he opened a general store that competed with the owners’ own company store - 1889

Wall Street crashes—"Black Tuesday"—throwing the world's economy into a years-long crisis including an unemployment rate in the U.S. that by 1933 hit nearly 25 percent - 1929

The most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States; 
Its from my favorite documentary by PBS - New York. 

This particular part about Wall Street crash of 1929 is from episode 5 of the series with title: Cosmopolis 
there are lots of archive photos, footages and drawings throughout the series and in my opinion it was great work done with finding them. 

series website: 
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/serie... 

"Archival shoots took place at various historical and cultural institutions, including the New-York Historical Society, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Library of Congress, and focused on the filming of particularly rare or large-scale archival prints, lithographs, maps, and photographs"