Wednesday, July 03, 2024
Today in Labor History July 3, 2024
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Hard rock miner in Telluride, Colorado
2000 workers, many of whom are children, from 20 textile mills in Paterson, NJ, went on strike. They demanded 11 hour days (down from 13.5 hours). Employers refused to negotiate and broke the strike by declaring a reduction in work hours to twelve hours daily during the week and nine hours on Saturdays. – 1835
Feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She was a prominent feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. Her best-remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis. – 1860
A gun battle ensued when striking hard rock miners in Telluride, Colorado confronted scabs at the mine. Three died and six were injured. Later that day, the striking miners rounded up the scabs and ordered them to leave the country. The strike was settled three days later when owners agreed to the miners’ demands for $3/day and an either -hour day. – 1901
Important Events From This day in History July 3
1998 UK Rolls Royce Sold To Volkswagen
1998 : After many months of negotiations, together with a bidding war with BMW and high court battles Rolls Royce is sold to Volkswagen for £479m. Volkswagen has stated that the manufacture of Rolls Royce cars will continue at Rolls-Royce's Crewe headquarters in England. The Saga of who owned the rights to produce cars with the famous Rolls Royce emblem continued for the next few years as unknown to Volkswagen they had not bought the rights to use the RR Logo. Over the next few years BMW and Volkswagen did come to an arrangement where Volkswagen own and build Bentleys with Volkswagen Engines at the old Rolls Royce factory in Crewe in England and BMW own and produce Rolls Royce Cars with BMW engines at Goodwood in England.
1968 Vietnam Heavy U.S. Casualties
1968 : Figures released show that more Americans were killed during the first six months of 1968 than in all of 1967 and were a direct result of the communist Tet Offensive. Combined with heavy U.S. casualties and disillusionment with President Johnson's conduct of the Vietnam war his popularity with the people continued to decrease causing him to decide he would neither seek nor accept the nomination of his party for re-election.
1922 U.S.A. Forest Fires Olympia and Seattle
1922 : Forest fires in the state of Washington blaze through cities like Olympia and Seattle. The lumber companies throughout the state were in danger of significant losses to their industry unless heavy rains became a part of the forecast.
1939 Japan China Conflict
1939 : Dispatches report that Japanese and Soviet sponsored Outer Mongolian troops clash in the Manchoukuoan territory. Reports also disclosed that the Japanese offensive was in an effort to drive out Outer Mongolian troops back past the Khalka River.
1940 British Destroy French Fleet
1940 : Following the German invasion and occupation of France, French warships fled to the port of Mers-el-Kebir in Algeria. Britain gave the french Vichy government the options of the following for it's French Navy.
1. Join British naval forces in the fight against Germany
2. Hand the ships over to British crews
3. Disarm the French Navy Ships
4. Scuttle the ships
The French refused, so Britain fearing the French Ships would be used by the Germans to help with an invasion of England circled the port with British Warships and opened fire on the French fleet, killing 1,250 French sailors, damaging the battleship Dunkerque and destroying the Bretagne and the Provence.
1957 Nikita Khrushchev Purges Opposition
1957 : Nikita Khrushchev takes control in the Soviet Union by purging his most serious opponents from positions of authority in government.
1958 U.S.A. Hurricanes Connie and Diane
1958 : Following deadly floods caused by Hurricanes Connie and Diane in August 1955 President Eisenhower signs the Rivers and Harbors Flood Control Bill, allocating funds for improvement of flood-control and water-storage systems including specific provisions for hurricane flood protection.
1962 Algeria Independence
1962 : Following a referendum for independence on July 1st with a nearly unanimous decision. President De Gaulle of France pronounced Algeria an independent country on 3rd July (but the official date for celebration of independence is 5th July).
1966 England Vietnam Anti War Protests
1966 : The Vietnam Anti-War Protesters demonstration outside the US Embassy turns violent and 30 protesters are arrested.
1970 Spain Plane Crash
1970 : A British Dan Air charter flight heading for Spain's Costa Brava resort crashed into a mountain near Barcelona, Spain, killing 112 people.
1971 France Jim Morrison
1971 : The lead singer of "The Doors" Jim Morrison is found dead in a bathtub in his apartment in Paris with heart failure aggravated by excessive drinking.
1986 U.S.A. Statue of Liberty
1986 : After appointing a commission to save, restore and preserve the 150 feet tall Statue of Liberty in 1984, President Ronald Reagan led ceremonies to unveil the newly restored Statue of Liberty.
1987 France Butcher of Lyon
1987 : The Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie / Butcher of Lyon and the former head of Gestapo who was extradited from Bolivia to face charges is found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
1988 US Shoots Down Iranian Passenger Jet
1988 : The U.S. Navy cruiser Vincennes shoots down an Iranian passenger jet that it mistakes for a hostile Iranian fighter aircraft in the Persian Gulf.
2000 UK Ken Livingstone
2000 : Ken Livingstone has taken up full powers as London's first directly elected mayor and told his supporters "The first duty of the mayor is to London."
2006 Mexico Elections
2006 : As results came in from Mexico’s federal elections conducted on July 2nd, the winner was unclear, with both the National Action Party and the Democratic Revolution Party claiming a win in the presidency. By September of 2006 the election results were confirmed with Felipe Calderon, the National Action Party’s candidate, as the new president of Mexico. This election also marked the first time the Institutional Revolutionary Party was third place in Congressional elections, the party was the ruling party for 71 years.
2006 Spain Valencia Train Crash
2006 : An underground train in Valencia, Spain crashed killing 41 people. The train derailed just as it approached Jesus Station. The crash is believed to have been caused by a broken wheel and excess speeds.
2008 U.S.A. Latest Jobless Figures
2008 : The latest US employment figures show US companies have cut workers for the sixth month in a row (June 62,000 jobs cut) fueling fears that the world's largest economy is heading towards a recession.
2008 U.S.A. Man Gives Birth
2008 : Thomas Beatie has given birth to a baby girl on this day. Beatie, born a female, was legally a male when he became pregnant. Despite going through the gender reassignment process, Beatie chose to keep his female reproductive organs in order to still be able to give birth to children.
2009 Sarah Palin Resigns as Governor of Alaska
2009 : Sarah Palin, former running-mate for John McCain, announced that she will resign from her office of governor of Alaska. The announcement was unexpected and it was suspected that the announcement came in time for Palin to prepare herself to run in the 2012 presidential election.
Tuesday, July 02, 2024
Today in Labor History July 2, 2024
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Attorney General Olney obtained an injunction in federal court barring Pulman union leaders from supporting a strike and demanding the strikers cease their activities or face being fired. Eugene Debs and other leaders of the American Railway Union ignored the injunction, and federal troops were called up to enforce it. – 1894
The NYC Teachers Union resigned from the National Education Association to protest a proposed ban on Communist teachers. – 1950
President Johnson signed Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, forbidding unions and employers from discriminating on the basis of race, color, gender, nationality, or religion. – 1964
The Labor Department reported that U.S. employers cut 467,000 jobs over the prior month, driving the nation’s unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5%. – 2009
Important Events From This day in History July 2
2005 World Wide Live 8 Concerts
2005 : Live 8 concerts happen in members of the G8 cities around the world and South Africa to highlight the aims of the UK's Make Poverty History campaign and the Global Call for Action Against Poverty, hoping to put pressure on the meeting of political leaders of the G8 countries. The Live 8 concerts are organised by Bob Geldof and a number of other well known pop icons. Unlike other earlier concerts to raise money for those starving these concerts were designed to highlight, educate and put pressure on the Leaders of the G8 countries to do more for the world's poor. Even before the concerts some measure of success is gained when the G8 finance ministers agree to cancel the debt owed by 18 of the world's poorest countries.
The concerts occur in the following cities:
London - Hyde Park : Paul McCartney, U2, George Michael, Pete Doherty, Elton John, Bob Geldof, Madonna, Coldplay, Robbie Williams, The Who, Sting, REM, Mariah Carey, Annie Lennox
There were 150,000 people in the main arena and another 50,000 watching on large screens in other parts of Hyde Park.Philadelphia - Philadelphia Museum of Art : Will Smith, Destiny's Child, Jay Z, Bon Jovi, Kaiser Chiefs, Black Eyed Peas, Jimmy Smits, Toby Keith, Dave Matthews Band, Alicia Keys, Linkin Park, Def Leppard, Sarah McLachlan, Slipknot, Keith Urban, Stevie Wonder
It is estimated 1 million people were at the concert as it was a no ticket concert.
Paris - Palais de Versailles : Passi, Faudel, Alpha Blondy, Craig David, Andrea Bocelli, Shakira, Zucchero, The Cure, Youssou N'Dour1, Dido
Berlin - the Siegessäule : A-Ha, Die Toten Hosen, Wir sind Helden, Katherine Jenkins, Audioslave, Green Day, Claudia Schiffer, Chris de Burgh, Brian Wilson, Renee Olstead, Sasha, Daniel Powter, Joana Zimmer, Roxy Music, Faithless, Otto
Rome - at the Circus Maximus : Zucchero, Duran Duran, Elisa, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Planet Funk, Le Vibrazioni, Cesare Cremonini, Nek, Piero Pelù, Jane Alexander (Interstitial), Biagio Antonacci, Fiorella Mannoia
Barrie - at Park Place : Dan Aykroyd and Tom Green, Tom Cochrane, Sam Roberts, Bryan Adams, Simple Plan, Bruce Cockburn, Les Trois Accords, Randy Bachman, Deep Purple, Great Big Sea, Celine Dion,- Blue Rodeo, Gordon Lightfoot, Our Lady Peace, Jet, Jann Arden, Mötley Crüe, The Tragically Hip, Neil Young
Chiba - Makuhari Messe : Rize, McFly, Good Charlotte, Dreams Come True, Do As Infinity, Björk
Johannesburg - Mary Fitzgerald Square : Lucky Dube, Vusi Mahlasela, Malaika, Nelson Mandela, Oumou Sangare, Orchestra Baobab, Mahotella Queens, Zola
Moscow - Red Square : Agata Kristi, Fairy Taiga, Bi-2, Linda, Moral Code X, Pet Shop Boys
1934 Germany Hitler Purges Traitors
1934 : Adolf Hitler conducts a purge of traitors in the Nazi party . Hundreds of people were executed after undergoing a 3 minute trial to face the charges of being traitors. Hitler seemingly secured his power in the nation by forcing the power from the conservatives. Vice Chancellor von Papen, a conservative and critic of Nazi policies, was set to resign the next day.
1937 Amelia Earhart Goes Missing
1937 : Amelia Earhart and her navigator Frederick Noonan go missing during their attempt to fly around the world between New Guinea, and Howland Island, an island in the center of the Pacific Ocean. No trace of the aircraft including Earhart or Noonan was ever found.
1945 US Bombs Japanese Cities
1945 : The American Air Force drops over 1000 tons of explosives on each of four Japanese cities . The attack was carried out by nearly 600 B-29 Super fortresses at 3 am. The places that were hit were the Kure Naval Base, Shimonoseki port, Ube, and Kumamato.
1958 Cuba Americans In Danger
1958 : Americans staying in Cuba become more fearful as Cuban rebels, headed by Fidel Castro, continued to kidnap people. Rebels were unaffected by the presence of United States Marines sent to rescue kidnapped Americans, but they did indicate that they may release 3 Canadian citizens. Cuban rebels showed no indication of releasing Americans or stopping the kidnappings which had grown to a rate of 10 American kidnappings per day over a period of five days.
1964 U.S.A. Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964 : The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed into law by President Johnson. The bill had a rough time going through the Senate when the "Southern Bloc" of southern Senators led by Richard Russell launched a filibuster lasting 54 days to prevent its passage. Said Russell "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states." The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark piece of legislation that outlawed segregation in schools, public places, and employment. The bill also created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission covering both race and gender for the first time in history.
1966 US Sinks North Vietnamese Torpedo Boats
1966 : United States navy planes sink 3 North Vietnamese torpedo boats. The Vietnamese boats were set to attack an American destroyer, but the navy planes were able to repel the attack while only suffering some damage to one plane whose pilot made it back safely.
1975 India Crackdown On Criminals
1975 : The Indian government promised to crack down on smugglers, land speculators, and tax evaders in the country. The prime minister, Indira Gandhi , promised severe punishment for the criminals. Also, the president, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, declared that the government would have much power over the arrests and punishments that violators of the law would receive. The prime minister also promised help to millions of landless peasants.
1979 U.S.A. Susan B. Anthony Dollar
1979 : The Susan B. Anthony dollar became available at banks and is the Dollar of the Future.
1982 U.S.A. Larry Walters
1982 : Larry Walters using 45 helium filled weather balloons to lift him and his lawn chair three miles high , he controlled his descent using a BB gun shooting holes in balloons to control his height.
Monday, July 01, 2024
Monday Morning in the Blogosphere
Will President Joe Biden stay in the race? - Poynter
ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners - Nieman Lab
Georgian fact-checkers won’t back down after passage of foreign agents law - Poynter
Readers of online news prefer simple headlines, research suggests - Journalist's Resource
Paxton Media Group acquires four titles from Rust Communications - America's Newspapers
Today in Labor History July 1, 2024
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The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union Pickets
Steel workers in Cleveland, led by the Poles and Czech wire mill workers, began a violent strike in what was to be an 88-week strike against wage cuts. – 1885
The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers staged what was to become an unsuccessful three-month strike against U.S. Steel Corp. Subsidiaries. – 1901
The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) organized the “Great Revolt”, a strike involving 50,000 cloakmakers that lasted over 4 months. Following the lead from women, the mostly male cloakmakers won uniform wages, a shorter workweek and paid holidays. As with the result of the strikes in 1909 and 1910, the ILGWU swelled in membership. – 1910
Some 1,100 streetcar workers went on strike in New Orleans, spurring the creation of the po’ boy sandwich by local sandwich shop owners and one-time streetcar men. “Whenever we saw one of the striking men coming,” Bennie Martin later recalled, “one of us would say, ‘Here comes another poor boy.’” Martin and his brother Clovis fed any striker who showed up. – 1929
The Great Railroad strike of 1922, commonly know as the “Big Strike” was a nationwide strike of railroad workers. Launched by seven of the sixteen railroad labor organizations in existence at the time, the strike lasted just over a month before collapsing. At least ten people, most of them strikers or family, were killed in connection with the strike. – 1922
The Hawaiian longshore strike brought together Japanese, Filipino and other ethnic plantation workers into one labor union. – 1937
The United Auto Workers (UAW), under the leadership of Walter Reuther, left the American Federation of Labor (AFL). They left because of conflicts between Reuther and AFL president George Meany. Reuther died in a plane crash in 1970, and the UAW did not rejoin the AFL until 1981. – 1968
The National Association of Post Office & General Service Maintenance Employees, the United Federation of Postal Clerks, the National Federation of Post Office Motor Vehicle Employees and the National Association of Special Delivery Messengers merge to become the American Postal Workers Union. – 1971
The International Jewelry Workers Union merged with Service Employees International Union. – 1980
The Graphic Arts International Union merged with the International Printing & Graphic Communications Union to become the Graphic Communications International Union, now a conference of the Teamsters. – 1983
Copper miners began a years-long, bitter strike against Phelps-Dodge in Clifton, Arizona. Democratic Governor Bruce Babbitt repeatedly deployed state police and National Guardsmen to assist the company over the course of the strike, which broke the union. – 1983
The Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union merged with International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees. – 1995
The International Chemical Workers Union merged with the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union. – 1996
The Newspaper Guild merged with the Communications Workers of America. – 1997
The United American Nurses affiliated with the AFL-CIO. – 2001
Important Events From This day in History July 1
1997 Hong Kong Handover
1997 : Hong Kong is handed back to the Chinese authorities after 156 years as a British colony. Tung Chee-hwa was sworn in as Hong Kong's new leader.
1916 France The Somme
1916 : After bombing the area of no mans land between German and English Forces in Somme region of France the English soldiers went over the trenches expecting little German resistance , but the Germans had large numbers of Machine Guns trained on the area and by the end of the day 20,000 British soldiers were dead and another 40,000 had injuries, this became one of the worst military decisions in history and the offensive was eventually stopped after 4 1/2 months with 600,000 British and French soldiers killed, wounded, or missing in the action.
1956 U.S.A. Interstate Highways
1956 : President Eisenhower called for $50 billion to be spent over 13 years for the construction of over 42,500 miles of interstate highways using the Interstate Highway Revenue Act which was to be funded by taxing gasoline, currently this tax is 19 cents for each gallon of gas.
1920 Germany Debt 200,000,000,000
1920 : The nation of Germany reports its total debt as 200,000,000,000 marks as of this day in history. In addition to the nation's large amount of debt, food riots breakout in various locations including Lubec throughout the country.
1932 U.S.A. Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt
1932 : Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt was selected as the presidential nominee at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1932 China Japanese Troops
1932 : Japanese troops took over a Chinese customs office in a city on the Chinese Eastern Railroad . The Japanese forced the Chinese customs official and his staff to evacuate the building.
1942 Egypt Rommel's Afrika Korps
1942 : After suffering earlier defeats at the hands of Rommel's Afrika Korps British troops after receiving much needed supplies and additional troops from New Zealand, Canada and Australia went on the offensive against Rommel's Afrika Korps at El Alamein in Egypt, thus stopping his advance and becoming a turning point in the war in North Africa.
1943 Sicily Allied Bombing
1943 : The allied Northeast African air forces bomb all of Sicily during a 24 hour raid. The attack was planned as an attempt to weaken Italy's outer defense during World War II.
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