The
New York City subway, the first rapid-transit
system in America,
opens. More than 100 workers died during the construction of the first 13 miles
of tunnels and track – 1904
(Survival of the Fittest: Thanks to unions,
construction jobs don’t cost lives the way they used to. If you’d like
to know more about construction unions, especially if you’re considering a
career in the trades, read this book. In clear, easy-to-read language it
explains how to be successful in the trades and, directly linked to that
success, how to make union construction thrive and prosper.)
Three strikes on works-relief projects in Maryland were underway today, with charges
that Depression-era Works Projects Administration jobs were paying only about
28 cents an hour—far less than was possible on direct relief. Civic
officials in Cumberland, where authorities had
established a 50-cent-per-hour minimum wage, supported the strikers - 1935
The National Labor Council is formed in Cincinnati to unite Black workers in the
struggle for full economic, political and social equality. The group was to
function for five years before disbanding, having forced many AFL and CIO
unions to adopt non-discrimination policies - 1951
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