Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Today in Labor History

October 11  --  Union Communications Services, Inc.

The Miners’ National Association is formed in Youngstown, Ohio, with the goal of uniting all miners, regardless of skill or ethnic background - 1873
 
Nearly 1,500 plantation workers strike Olaa Sugar, on Hawaii’s Big Island - 1948

October 10

Six days into a cotton field strike by 18,000 Mexican and Mexican-American workers in Pixley, Calif., four strikers are killed and six wounded; eight growers were indicted and charged with murder - 1933

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