The Edmund
Fitzgerald
Chicago Haymarket martyr Louis Lingg, 22, “cheated” the state the
day before his scheduled execution by committing suicide in his prison cell by
exploding a dynamite cap in his mouth. – 1887
Members of the Independent Union of All Workers occupied the
Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin ,
Minnesota , in what may have been
the first sit-down strike. Workers occupied the plant for three days, demanding
a raise. Unable to open the blockaded plant, Hormel accepted binding
arbitration and the workers received a ten percent wage increase. The agreement
was brokered by Governor Floyd B. Olson. – 1933
The
ship Edmund Fitzgerald, the biggest carrier on the Great Lakes, and crew of 29
were lost in a storm on Lake Superior while carrying ore from Superior,
Wisconsin to Detroit. The
cause of the sinking was never established. – 1975
The Tile, Marble, Terrazzo Finishers, Shop Workers & Granite
Cutters International Union merged into the United Brotherhood of Carpenters
& Joiners – 1988
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