Karen Silkwood
Over 20,000 workers participated in the funeral march for the
Haymarket anarchists framed for throwing the Haymarket bomb. – 1887
259 miners died in the underground
Cherry Mine fire in Cherry, Illinois.
As a result of the disaster,Illinois established
stricter safety regulations and in 1911, the basis for the state’s Workers
Compensation Act was passed. – 1909
As a result of the disaster,
A Western Federation of Miners strike was crushed by massive
government intervention and the militia in Butte , Montana .
The miners were striking for better pay and safer working conditions. The WFM
was a “radical” organization co-founded by Butte Union miners and played a key
role in the founding of the IWW.
-1914
The Holland Tunnel opened, running under the Hudson River for 1.6
miles and connecting the island of Manhattan in New York City
with Jersey City , New Jersey . Thirteen workers died over its
seven-year-long construction. – 1927
GM workers’ post-war strike for higher wages closed 96 plants. –
1945
Members of the International Typographical Union, on strike
against the Green Bay (Wisconsin ) Press-Gazette over technology
changes, created the Green Bay Daily News (later the News-Chronicle) as a
money-maker for the strikers and to support their cause. Surviving until 1976,
it was seen as the longest-running strike paper in newspaper history. The Gannett chain
ultimately bought the paper, only to fold it in 2005. – 1972
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union activist Karen Silkwood was
killed in a suspicious car crash. She was driving to a meeting with a New York
Times investigative reporter. She was bringing them documents proving the
company she worked for, Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation, had falsified quality
control record of nuclear fuel rods. – 1974
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