Friday, December 01, 2023

Today in Labor History December 1st, 2023

 


Rosa Parks 


The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen was founded in Port Jervis, NY. Its original purpose was to provide mutual support and insurance, but shortly branched out into labor relations - 1873

At the beginning of what would become the deadliest month in US coal mining history, the Naomi Mine, Fayette City, PA, was the scene of an explosion, killing 43 miners of mostly Hungarian descent. 27 of them are buried in the Mt Auburn Cemetery near Fayette City.

"The cause of the gas being present was an open door. The explosion was caused by an open light or an electric spark from the wires. The system of ventilation was faulty, having too many doors. They commenced to sink a shaft, but very little progress had been made." - from http://patheoldminer.rootsweb.ancestry.com/faynaomi.html

" Open lamps were used in the mine and the supposition is that a miner walked into a body of gas that had come by a cut through from an abandoned working and which had accumulated in such force that a fearful explosion followed." - from http://www3.gendisasters.com/pennsylvania/20115/bellevernon-pa-fire-damp-coal-mine-explosion-dec-1907


The Ford Motor Co. introduced the continuous moving assembly line which could produce a complete car every two-and-a-half minutes - 1913

Kellogg cereal adopts 6-hour day - 1930

African American Rosa Parks refuses to go to the back of a Montgomery, Ala. bus, fueling the growing civil rights movement's campaign to win desegregation and end the deep South's "Jim Crow" laws - 1955

United Garment Workers of America merge with United Food & Commercial Workers International Union - 1994

Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers & Allied Workers International Union & United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum & Plastics Workers of America merge with International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers & Helpers - 1996

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