Randy Economy: Remembering Mike Higby today here in Los Angeles. ...
Sad to hear that Mike Higby has passed away unexpectedly. Mike was a political icon here in Los Angeles and was more than just a political watchdog/reporter/talk show host...Mike was also a kind soul to many of us who were fortunate enough to know him on a personal level. The details of Mike Higby's death have not been fully disclosed but today I ask that all of you take the time to say a Prayer for Mike Higby and his Soul.
Joseph Mailander will be the guest on tonight's radio show.
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Today in Labor History
April 18 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
West Virginia coal miners strike, defend selves against National Guard - 1912
After a four-week boycott led by Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., bus companies in New York City agree to hire 200 black drivers and mechanics - 1941Friday, April 17, 2015
City Council Honors Michael Higby
City Council adjourning motion by Council Member Mike Bonin in support of adjourning in honor of Michael Higby in Van Nuys City Hall to-day. Speaking extemporaneously, Bonin acknowledged Higby's sharp criticism of City politics, said that Higby's blog MayorSam had been not only a blog but a forerunner to many other such blogs, and praised Higby for finding a way through communication to engage more people in local politics
h/t Joseph Mailander
Today in Labor History
April 17 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
The Supreme Court holds that a maximum-hours law for New York bakery workers is unconstitutional under the due process clause of the 14th amendment - 1905
An explosion at a West Texas fertilizer plant kills 15 people and injures nearly 300 when 30 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate—stored in sheds without sprinkler systems—caught fire. Of those killed, ten were emergency responders - 2013
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Michael Higby Rest in Peace my friend *
As I learn more I will post additional information regarding Michael and his family.
Michael blogged at Mayor Sam's Sister City for many years, and is well known to many elected officials.
David Hernandez spoke with Michael's father to confirm the rumors that he has indeed moved on to heaven.
Michael Higby, 1964-2015.
Joseph Mailander on Michael Higby
The Passing of Michael "Mayor Sam" Higby at 50
Today in Labor History
April 16 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Employers lock out 25,000 New York City garment workers in a dispute over hiring practices. The Int’l Ladies’ Garment Workers Union calls a general strike; after 14 weeks, 60,000 strikers win union recognition and the contractual right to strike - 1916
Five hundred workers in Texas City, Texas die in a series of huge oil refinery and chemical plant explosions and fires - 1947
An estimated 20,000 global justice activists blockade Washington, D.C., meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund - 2000
April 15 
A. Philip Randolph, civil rights leader and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, born in Crescent City, Fla. - 1889
A. Philip Randolph, civil rights leader and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, born in Crescent City, Fla. - 1889
Eight members of the Musicians union die in the sinking of the Titanic. According to survivors, they played their instruments until nearly the end. Five weeks later a concert organized by the union to benefit the musicians' families, held in a theater donated for the evening by impresario Flo Ziegfeld, featured the talents of 500 musicians. The evening ended with a rendering of "Nearer, My God, to Thee," the hymn being played as the ship went down. The union at the time was called the Musical Mutual Protective Union Local 310, the New York affiliate of the American Federation of Musicians - 1912
IWW union Agricultural Workers Organization formed in Kansas City, Mo. - 1915
Teacher unionists gather at the City Club on Plymouth Court in Chicago to form a new national union: the American Federation of Teachers - 1916
Start of ultimately successful six-day strike across New England by what has been described as the first women-led American union, the Telephone Operators Department of IBEW - 1919
Transport Workers Union founded - 1934
The first McDonald’s restaurant opens, in Des Plaines, Ill., setting the stage years later for sociologist Amitai Etzioni to coin the term "McJob." As defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, a McJob is "an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, especially one created by the expansion of the service sector" - 1955Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Today in Labor History
April 14 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
More than 100 Mexican and Filipino farm workers are arrested for union activities, Imperial Valley, Calif. Eight were convicted of “criminal syndicalism” - 1930
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath published - 1939
The United Steelworkers and the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers unions merge to form the largest industrial union in North America - 2005
Monday, April 13, 2015
Monday Night in the Blogosphere
The start of the women's elite US Cycling Cup
at Bonelli Park in San Dimas, CA.
Ad blocking is every publisher's problem now - Digiday
Newsweek Europe repackages for future - Editors Weblog
Print Units Rose 3% in the First Quarter - Publishers Weekly
Driver Hurt After Car Crashes Into LA Times Building - CBS
Australian newspapers launch survival campaign - New Kerala
Former News-Press Photographer Sues Paper for Firing Him - Noozhawk
Freelancers are still trying to get paid by Hudsonmod publisher - Romenesko
Analyst Begins Coverage of Tribune at 'Outperform' - Broadcasting and Cable
Writer at Japanese paper receives pay cut after plagiarism allegations - Poynter
Today in Labor History
April 13 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Int’l Hod Carriers & Building Laborers’ Union (today’s Laborers’ Int’l Union) is founded, as 25 delegates from 23 Local Unions in 17 cities—representing 8,186 Laborers—meet in Washington, D.C. - 1903
A 17-year-old Jimmy Hoffa leads his co-workers at a Kroger warehouse in Clinton, Indiana, in a successful job action: by refusing to unload a shipment of perishable strawberries, they forced the company to give in to their demands. Among other things: the “strawberry boys” had to report to work at 4:30 a.m., stay on the job for 12 hours, and were paid 32¢ an hour—only if growers arrived with berries to unload. Plus, they were required to spend three-fourths of any earnings buying goods from Kroger - 1930
Labor leader and Socialist Party founder Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned for opposing American entry into World War I. While in jail he ran for president, received 1 million votes - 1919
(The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene V. Debs: Eugene V. Debs was a labor activist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who captured the heart and soul of the nation’s working people. He was brilliant, sincere, compassionate and scrupulously honest. A founder of one of the nation’s first industrial unions, the American Railway Union, he went on to help launch the Industrial Workers of the World—the Wobblies. A man of firm beliefs and dedication, he ran for President of the United States five times under the banner of the Socialist Party, in 1912 earning 6 percent of the popular vote.)
(The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene V. Debs: Eugene V. Debs was a labor activist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who captured the heart and soul of the nation’s working people. He was brilliant, sincere, compassionate and scrupulously honest. A founder of one of the nation’s first industrial unions, the American Railway Union, he went on to help launch the Industrial Workers of the World—the Wobblies. A man of firm beliefs and dedication, he ran for President of the United States five times under the banner of the Socialist Party, in 1912 earning 6 percent of the popular vote.)Saturday, April 11, 2015
Thursday, April 09, 2015
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
FAME'S HUNGER WALK
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Cartoonist Offers Cartoons For Licensing Via Online Cartoon Catalog
Illustrator Dan Rosandich introduces new design layout for portfolio site
Chassell, Mich (PRWEB) April 08, 2015
A free daily auto-updating web cartoon for web designers is available. The feature automatically updates at 7PM New York City time, every 24 hours and all cartoons scheduled are guaranteed 100% family friendly. Nothing vulgar. The image is controlled via a PHP script and all that’s needed to add this comical content is a simple line of code which can be provided for easily adding to the HTML of any site or blog.
Cartoons for newspaper editors can easily be acquired by publishers seeking an alternative to signing a syndication contract. Navigate to (top far right menu: Cartoon Catalog) and browse any specific category on this site which offers niche-specific cartoons for daily or weekly newspapers. Images of interest can be supplied in high resolution TIFF format and sized to the preferred column width of choice if requested. Interested editors can purchase in one month increments or test the readership with a week’s worth of cartoons.
Flexible packaging options are available.
Custom cartoon illustrations can be created for any commercial project. Whether for use in print advertising or to use on posters or packaging, humorous illustration is another specialty. Rosandich has created work under the art direction of software designers, for use in “gift books” such as for birthdays, graduations and other special events. Cartoons have also been created for instructional posters, calendars and company greeting cards. Custom cartoons are ideal for promoting events and can be used on apparel such as t-shirts and caps or can be used on direct mail pieces and in email templates, web banners and infographics. Professionals who have customized illustrations created under their art direction will have artwork that is targeted directly to their audience which will make an indelible impression.
Cartoons and humorous illustrations for book publishers are also a specialty as Rosandich has created for many publishers including Pearson Education, John Wiley & Sons, Cengage Learning and Chicken Soup For The Soul. Art directors can acquire existing images from the catalogs or have artwork customized under their direction. Cartoons and comics can be an integral part of any print publishing platform and work well in conveying the message you want to make an impact with
Cartoons and comics can be an integral part of any print publishing platform and work well in conveying the message you want to make an impact with
Additionally, any existing cartoons may be colorized if requested or given new captions to better tailor the comic’s message to your readers or visitors.
Cartoonist Dan Rosandich restructured his online cartoon catalog into a specific skill set for those involved in the digital and print industry. DansCartoons offers quality cartoons and services that cater to various professionals in the print and publishing industry. The website offers cartoons to magazine editors, newspaper publishers, consultants who publish their own newsletters, authors and writers who publish their own books, art directors at book publishing companies, professional bloggers and journalists who author their own specific columns or articles including others in need of content. Facilitators have often used cartoons in their Power Point presentations which have worked great for adding some comic relief for their clients. Cartoons are the best form of infographic!
Today in Labor History
April 08 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
A total of 128 convict miners, leased to a coal company under the state’s shameful convict lease system, are killed in an explosion at the Banner coal mine outside Birmingham, Ala. The miners were mostly African-Americans jailed for minor offenses - 1911
President Wilson establishes the War Labor Board, composed of representatives from business and labor, to arbitrate disputes between workers and employers during World War I - 1918
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) is approved by Congress. President Franklin Roosevelt proposed the WPA during the Great Depression of the 1930s when almost 25 percent of Americans were unemployed. It created low-paying federal jobs providing immediate relief, putting 8.5 million jobless to work on projects ranging from construction of bridges, highways and public buildings to arts programs like the Federal Writers' Project - 1935
President Harry S. Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize the nation’s steel mills to avert a strike. The Supreme Court ruled the act illegal three weeks later - 1952
Power Poles being installed in La Verne
Appears two additional power poles will be installed shortly, meaning no electricity for about four hours again this morning.
ISLAM: A CHRISTIAN'S PERSPECTIVE
Every Wednesday, from 04/08/2015 to 04/22/2015, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
In this series of lectures, Pastor Jim will discuss the history, theology, and politics of Islam from the perspective of an outsider - a Christian looking at the faith group that claims the second largest number of worldwide adherents. For those who ask the many questions provoked by modern religious controversies, this class will provide a level-headed and thoughtful look at what Islam and Christianity have to say to one another. Topics will include the rise of modern extremist terrorism and the role of women in Islamic cultures, as well as an analysis of what the Qu'ran says about Jesus and how Christians might speak meaningfully and respectfully with Muslim neighbors.
The three-week class is open to everyone at no cost, but sign ups are required to assess seating needs. Please contact info@glenkirkchurch.org or stop by the Connection Center on the patio during the weekend worship services.
Wednesday Morning in the Blogosphere
Judy Blood worked for seven publishers at the Los Angeles Times,
she took one of the many buyouts after the Tribune took control.
Chapter One : A Crisis of Prioritization - Geoffrey Moore
Print media consumption grew 6.5% in 2014 - Business Standard
Washington Post is opening up revenue opportunities - Nieman Lab
Tribune Publishing Co Plans $0.18 Quarterly Dividend - Mideast Times
Tribune Media Backers To Sell $654M Of Their Stock - Deadline Hollywood
Tribune Media CEO Peter Liguori Made $23M In 2014 - Deadline Hollywood
Factory Media to close print operations to focus on digital and video - The Drum
Bay Area News Group Takes Over San Jose Mercury News Production - E and P
Tribune Media Files Registration Statement for Secondary Offering - PR Newswire
Tuesday, April 07, 2015
Today in Labor History
April 07 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
National Labor Relations Board attorney tells ILWU members to “lie down like good dogs,” Juneau, Alaska - 1947
Some 300,000 members of the National Federation of Telephone Workers, soon to become CWA, strike AT&T and the Bell System. Within five weeks all but two of the 39 federation unions had won new contracts - 1947
Fifteen thousand union janitors strike, Los Angeles - 2000
April 06
The first slave revolt in the U.S. occurs at a slave market in New York City’s Wall Street area. Twenty-one blacks were executed for killing nine whites. The city responded by strengthening its slave codes - 1712
The first slave revolt in the U.S. occurs at a slave market in New York City’s Wall Street area. Twenty-one blacks were executed for killing nine whites. The city responded by strengthening its slave codes - 1712
Birth of Rose Schneiderman, prominent member of the New York Women's Trade Union League, an active participant in the Uprising of the 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York City led by the Int’l Ladies Garment Workers' Union in 1909, and famous for an angry speech about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire: “Every week I must learn of the untimely death of one of my sister workers…Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement” - 1882
A sympathy strike by Chicago Teamsters in support of clothing workers leads to daily clashes between strikebreakers and armed police against hundreds and sometimes thousands of striking workers and their supporters. By the time the fight ended after 103 days, 21 people had been killed and 416 injured - 1905
What was to become a two-month strike by minor league umpires begins, largely over money: $5,500 to $15,000 for a season running 142 games. The strike ended with a slight improvement in pay - 2006
Newspaper Circulation falling at all newspapers
| Newspaper | 2004 | 2012 | 2014 | +/- %, 10 years | +/- %, 2 years |
| USA Today | 2192098 | 1627526 | 1156871 | -47.23% | -28.92% |
| WSJ | 2101017 | 1499204 | 1256292 | -40.21% | -16.20% |
| NYT | 1119027 | 717513 | 680905 | -39.15% | -5.10% |
| LA Times | 983727 | 489792 | 405213 | -58.81% | -17.27% |
| Wash Post | 760034 | 434693 | 399757 | -47.40% | -8.04% |
| NY Daily News | 712671 | 389270 | 313178 | -56.06% | -19.55% |
| NY Post | 642844 | 344755 | 261312 | -59.35% | -24.20% |
| Chicago Tribune | 603315 | 388848 | 324620 | -46.19% | -16.52% |
| Denver Post | 340169 | 236223 | 188630 | -44.55% | -20.15% |
| Newsday | 553117 | 278369 | 247703 | -55.22% | -11.02% |
| Houston Chronicle | 549300 | 234483 | 225032 | -59.03% | -4.03% |
| Dallas Morning News | 528379 | 345342 | 172690 | -67.32% | -49.99% |
| SF Chronicle | 499008 | 229176 | 145520 | -70.84% | -36.50% |
| Arizona Republic | 466926 | 274783 | 244726 | -47.59% | -10.94% |
| Boston Globe | 446241 | 180919 | 159458 | -64.27% | -11.86% |
| Tampa Bay Times | 348502 | 299393 | 217597 | -37.56% | -27.32% |
h/t Billy Hollis
Tuesday Morning in the Blogosphere
Seattle, Washington as viewed from the Space Needle
Could Detroit become a one newspaper town? - WXYZ
Is the Party Over for Social Media? - Editor and Publisher
The Dallas Post Tribune Persistently Prevails in Print - Dallas Weekly
Newspaper print circulation is down about half in last ten years - Qando
Community newspapers in Putnam, Cabell counties go under - WV Gazette
Newspapers Hunt for New Readers on Instagram - American Journalism Review
Five states sue for fraudulent subscription services - Newspapers and Technology
Newspapers have done a terrible job building local digital audiences - Nieman Lab
Houston Chronicle's downtown building going up for sale - Houston Business Journal
Saturday, April 04, 2015
Today in Labor History
April 04 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
The first issue of The Labor Review, a "weekly magazine for organized workers," was published in Minneapolis. Edna George, a cigar packer in Minneapolis, won $10 in gold for suggesting the name “Labor Review.” The Labor Review has been published continuously since then, currently as a monthly newspaper - 1907
Unemployed riot in New York City’s Union Square - 1914
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, where he had been supporting a sanitation workers’ strike. In the wake of this tragedy, riots break out in many cities, including Washington, D.C. - 1968
Some 1,700 United Mine Workers members in Virginia and West Virginia beat back concessions demanded by Pittston Coal Co. - 1989
Saturday Morning in the Blogosphere
Puddingstone Lake San Dimas, California
Toronto Star drops paywall, joins Snapchat - Poynter
The New Mobile: News For the Next Gen - SPJ Network
Fate of The Detroit News could soon be decided - Crain's
News doesn’t belong on paper anymore - Editors Weblog
What Newspapers Don't Know about Web Traffic - Stickier News
Why this media startup is betting on print newspapers - Fast Company
A Coast-to-Coast Newspaper Shuffle Is Taking Shape - Newsonomics
Every time a Baby Boomer dies, a newspaper circulation manager dies - Courier-Post
Bay Area Group Takes Over San Jose Mercury News Production - Editor and Publisher
Friday, April 03, 2015
Today in Labor History
April 03 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Some 20,000 textile mill strikers in Paterson, N.J., gather on the green in front of the house of Pietro Botto, the socialist mayor of nearby Haledon, to receive encouragement by novelist Upton Sinclair, journalist John Reed and speakers from the Wobblies. Today, the Botto House is home to the American Labor Museum - 1913
UAW Local 833 strikes the Kohler bathroom fixtures company in Kohler, Wisc. The strike ends six years later after Kohler is found guilty of refusing to bargain, agrees to reinstate 1,400 strikers and pay them $4.5 million in back pay and pension credits - 1954
Martin Luther King Jr. returns to Memphis to stand with striking AFSCME sanitation workers. This evening, he delivers his famous "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in a church packed with union members and others. He is assassinated the following day - 1968
April 02 The Union Label Trades Department is chartered by the American Federation of Labor. Its mission: promote the products and services produced in America by union members, especially those products identified by a union label, shop card, store card, and service button - 1909
The Supreme Court declares unconstitutional a 1918 Washington, D.C., law establishing a minimum wage for women - 1923
Major league baseball players end a 232-day strike, which began the prior August 12 and led to the cancellation of the 1994 postseason and the World Series - 1995
April 01
Many believe that Cincinnati on this day became the first U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary. Others say no, it was Boston, back in 1678, exact date unknown - 1853
Many believe that Cincinnati on this day became the first U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary. Others say no, it was Boston, back in 1678, exact date unknown - 1853
United Mine Workers of America win 8-hour day - 1898
San Francisco laundry workers strike for wage increases and an 8-hour day - 1907
What was to become a 13-week strike begins today in Hopedale, Mass., when hundreds of workers seeking higher pay and a 9-hour day gathered in the street near the Draper Corp. loom-making plant. The president of the company declared: “We will spend $1 million to break this strike,” and, in fact, did, aided by hundreds of sworn “special policemen” with clubs. Police were drawn from a three-state area as well - 1913
(Strike! Revised, Expanded, and Updated Edition: In this latest edition of Strike! you can read about labor-management conflicts that have occurred over the past 140 years. Here you’ll learn much about workers’ struggle to win a degree of justice, from the workers’ point of view. Brecher also examines the ever-shifting roles and configurations of unions, from the Knights of Labor of the 1800s to the AFL-CIO of the 1990s.)
(Strike! Revised, Expanded, and Updated Edition: In this latest edition of Strike! you can read about labor-management conflicts that have occurred over the past 140 years. Here you’ll learn much about workers’ struggle to win a degree of justice, from the workers’ point of view. Brecher also examines the ever-shifting roles and configurations of unions, from the Knights of Labor of the 1800s to the AFL-CIO of the 1990s.)
Unionized miners at West Virginia’s Coal River Colliery Co. (CRC) strike for union scale. CRC was an investment venture of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE), with shares owned by BLE members - 1924 (Source: Conflict at Coal River Collieries: The UMWA Versus the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, by Thomas J. Robertson & Ronald L. Lewis)
Strike of cotton mill workers begins in Gastonia, N.C. During the strike, police raided the strikers’ tent colony; the chief of police was killed. The strike leaders were framed for murder and convicted, but later freed - 1929
Some 400,000 members of the United Mine Workers strike for higher wages and employer contributions to the union’s health and welfare fund. President Truman seizes the mines - 1946
Forty thousand textile workers strike in cotton and rayon mills of six southern states, seeking higher pay, sickness and accident insurance, and pensions - 1951
Longest newspaper strike in U.S. history, 114 days, ends in New York City. Workers at nine newspapers were involved - 1963
Major league baseball players begin what is to become a 13-day strike, ending when owners agree to increase pension fund payments and to add salary arbitration to the collective bargaining agreement - 1972
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters merges with Brotherhood of Railway, Airline & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employees - 1978
Eleven-day strike by 34,000 New York City transit workers begins, halts bus and subway service in all five boroughs before strikers return to work with a 17 percent raise over two years plus a cost-of-living adjustment - 1980
United Cement, Lime & Gypsum Workers Int’l Union merges with Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers & Helpers - 1984
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers granted a charter by the AFL-CIO - 1989
The U.S. minimum wage increases to $3.80 per hour - 1990
The United Mine Workers of America dedicates the John L. Lewis Mining and Labor Museum at Lewis’ boyhood home in Lucas, Iowa - 1990
The U.S. minimum wage increases to $4.25 per hour - 1991
Players begin the first strike in the 75-year history of the National Hockey League. They win major improvements in the free agency system and other areas of conflict, and end the walkout after 10 days - 1992
March 31
President Martin Van Buren issues a broadly-applicable executive order granting the 10-hour day to all government employees engaged in manual labor - 1840
(Your Rights in the Workplace, 10th edition: The most substantial "employee rights" reference we’ve found. This book covers concerns of every worker in every state, in plain language and with what-to-do-about-it advice. Unions remain the best protection on the job, but this guide gives solid explanations on the full range of issues and options, and then some. Topics covered include privacy rights, family leave, discrimination and harassment, wages and hours, hiring and firing, safety on the job.)
President Martin Van Buren issues a broadly-applicable executive order granting the 10-hour day to all government employees engaged in manual labor - 1840
(Your Rights in the Workplace, 10th edition: The most substantial "employee rights" reference we’ve found. This book covers concerns of every worker in every state, in plain language and with what-to-do-about-it advice. Unions remain the best protection on the job, but this guide gives solid explanations on the full range of issues and options, and then some. Topics covered include privacy rights, family leave, discrimination and harassment, wages and hours, hiring and firing, safety on the job.)
Cowboys earning $40 per month begin what is to become an unsuccessful two-and-a-half-month strike for higher wages at five ranches in the Texas Panhandle - 1883
Cesar Chavez born in Yuma, Ariz.- 1927
Construction begins on the three-mile Hawk’s Nest Tunnel through Gauley Mountain, W. Va., as part of a hydroelectric project. A 
congressional hearing years later was to report that 476 laborers in the mostly black, migrant workforce of 3,000 were exposed to silica rock dust in the course of their 10-hour-a-day, six-days-a-week shifts and died of silicosis. Some researchers say that more than 1,000 died - 1930
congressional hearing years later was to report that 476 laborers in the mostly black, migrant workforce of 3,000 were exposed to silica rock dust in the course of their 10-hour-a-day, six-days-a-week shifts and died of silicosis. Some researchers say that more than 1,000 died - 1930
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs legislation establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps to help alleviate suffering during the Depression. By the time the program ended after the start of World War II it had provided jobs for more than six million men and boys. The average enrollee gained 11 pounds in his first three months - 1933
Wisconsin state troopers fail to get scabs across the picket line to break a 76-day Allis-Chalmers strike in Milwaukee led by UAW Local 248. The plant remained closed until the government negotiated a compromise - 1941
Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor, later to become a Supreme Court justice, issues an injunction against baseball team owners to end a 232-day work stoppage - 1995
Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor, later to become a Supreme Court justice, issues an injunction against baseball team owners to end a 232-day work stoppage - 1995
March 30 
Chicago stockyard workers win 8-hour day - 1918
Chicago stockyard workers win 8-hour day - 1918
At the height of the Great Depression, 35,000 unemployed march in New York’s Union Square. Police beat many demonstrators, injuring 100 - 1930
The federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act is enacted - 1970
Harry Bridges, Australian-born dock union leader, dies at age 88. He helped form and lead the Int’l Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) for 40 years. A Bridges quote: “The most important word in the language of the working class is ‘solidarity’” – 1990
Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild announce that the membership has voted to merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, creating the 150,000-member SAG-AFTRA - 2012
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