Friday, April 14, 2023

Today in Labor History April 14

 


John Steinbeck


Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. - John Steinbeck

More than 100 Mexican and Filipino farmworkers were arrested for union activities in Imperial Valley, California. Eight were convicted of “criminal syndicalism”. – 1930
John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath is published. It was the story of a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers who migrate to California looking for relief from the economic devastation caused by the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. – 1939
The United Steelworkers and the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers unions merged to form the largest industrial union in North America. – 2005
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  1. EKOOM 2:06 AM

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