Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Gwen Ifill, Washington journalist, 61
Gwen Ifill, Washington journalist, 61: Ifill died of cancer complications. Co-anchor Judy Woodruff gave viewers the news on
Sunday, November 06, 2016
Exotic Foods of the Philippines
LA Times journos warned - again - about tweet politics
LA Times journos warned - again - about tweet politics: The second memo of the fall election cycle reminds reporters and editors that social media is on the record.
Tuesday, November 01, 2016
Tuesday Morning in the Blogosphere
tronc, a train-wreak in the making
Gannett abandons bid to buy Tronc - Poynter
Shoptalk: The Value of Newspapers - Editor and Publisher
Thomson Reuters to cut 2,000 jobs worldwide - The Guardian
Where have all the unbiased newspapers gone? - MSU Reporter
Gannett Abandons Effort to Buy Newspaper Publisher Tronc - New York Times
Why is Jackson Rancheria casino tribe buying a newspaper? - The Sacramento Bee
Gannett's Bankers Can Look to Yellow Pages Bankruptcy for Caution on Tronc - The Street
Gannett pulls offer for Tronc, owner of L.A. Times, after six-month pursuit - Los Angeles Times
tronc Comments on Gannett’s Withdrawal of Its Proposal Due to Inability to Finance - Business Wire
Today in Labor History
November 01 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
In the nation’s first general strike for a 10-hour day, 300 armed Irish longshoremen marched through the streets of Philadelphia calling on other workers to join them. Some 20,000 did, from clerks to bricklayers to city employees and other occupations. The city announced a 10-hour workday within the week; private employers followed suit three weeks later – 1835
(Strikes Around the World: Are strikes going out of fashion or are they an inevitable feature of working life? This is a longstanding debate. The much-proclaimed ‘withering away of the strike’ in the 1950s was quickly overturned by the ‘resurgence of class conflict’ in the late 1960s and 1970s. The period since then has been characterized as one of ‘labor quiescence’. Commentators again predict the strike’s demise, at least in the former heartlands of capitalism.)
Thirty-seven Black striking Louisiana sugar workers are murdered when Louisiana militia, aided by bands of "prominent citizens," shoot unarmed workers trying to get a dollar-per-day wage. Two strike leaders are lynched - 1887
Malbone tunnel disaster in New York City; inexperienced scab motorman crashes five-car train during
strike, 97 killed, 255 injured - 1918
Some 400,000 soft coal miners strike for higher wages and shorter hours - 1919
United Stone & Allied Products Workers of America merge with United Steelworkers of America - 1972
The UAW begins what was to become a successful 172-day strike against International Harvester. The union turned back company demands for weakened work rules, mandatory overtime - 1979
Honda assembles the first-ever Japanese car manufactured in a U.S. plant, in Marysville, Ohio - 1982
Malbone tunnel disaster in New York City; inexperienced scab motorman crashes five-car train during
strike, 97 killed, 255 injured - 1918Some 400,000 soft coal miners strike for higher wages and shorter hours - 1919
United Stone & Allied Products Workers of America merge with United Steelworkers of America - 1972
The UAW begins what was to become a successful 172-day strike against International Harvester. The union turned back company demands for weakened work rules, mandatory overtime - 1979
Honda assembles the first-ever Japanese car manufactured in a U.S. plant, in Marysville, Ohio - 1982
October 31George Henry Evans publishes the first issue of the Working Man’s Advocate, “edited by a Mechanic” for the “useful and industrious classes” in New York City. He focused on the inequities between the “portion of society living in luxury and idleness” and those “groaning under the oppressions and miseries imposed on them.” - 1829
Tennessee sends in leased convict laborers to break a coal miners strike in Anderson County. The miners revolted, burned the stockades, and sent the captured convicts by train back to Knoxville - 1891
After 14 years of labor by 400 stone masons, the Mt. Rushmore sculpture is completed in Keystone, S.D.
- 1941Int'l Alliance of Bill Posters, Billers & Distributors of the United States & Canada surrenders its AFL-CIO charter and is disbanded - 1971