Important Events From This day in History June 19th

 

1846 U.S.A. First official Game of Baseball

1846 : The first official game played under New York Knickerbockers Baseball Club rules was in 1846 in Hoboken, New Jersey, between the Knickerbockers and the New York Base Ball Club. History of Baseball.

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1905 U.S.A. Nickelodeon

1905 : The world's first nickelodeon opened showing a silent film called The Great Train Robbery the name nickelodeon was used as it cost 5 cents or a nickel to watch the movie or live vaudeville acts.

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1910 U.S.A. Fathers Day

1910 : The First Father's Day was celebrated for the first time in Spokane, Washington.

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1917 UK Royal Family

1917 : During the first World War as sentiment against Germany by the British People worsened King George V ordered the British royal family to end using the German-sounding surname, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and to take on the name Royal House of Windsor.

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1923 Italy Mount Etna

1923 : Walls of lava one mile wide are descending Mount Etna towards the town of Lingauglossa in Italy, the lava is travelling slowly giving time for evacuation of the area, another flow of Lava over 50ft high and a mile wide is heading for the town of Giarre with a population of 17,000 the town will be doomed as the lava will cover all buildings in the town.

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2002 Australia Solo Round The World Balloon Flight

2002 : Steve Fossett sets off in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom from Northam, Western Australia on his fifth attempt at flying a balloon solo around the world.

1938 U.S.A. Train Crash

1938 : A flood in Custer Creek in Terry, Montana washes out a bridge over the Custer Creek river used by trains and when the Olympian Special came through, it crashes into the raging waters with the loss of 46 lives.

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1953 U.S.A. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

1953 : Following the conviction for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and passing U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing Prison. Spying by both sides in the Fifties was a part of the Cold War.

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1968 U.S.A. The Poor Peoples March

1968 : 50,000 people participated in " The Poor Peoples March " organised by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to address issues of economic justice. The campaign culminated on Washington, D.C. to demand economic aid be given to the poorest communities in the United States. Unlike many of Martin Luther King Jr's campaigns The Poor People’s Campaign did not focus on just poor blacks but addressed all poor people of every minority.

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1970 UK Edward Heath New Prime Minister

1970 : The conservative party led by Edward Heath wins in the general election. The win was considered unusual because all the opinion polls held in the few days prior to the General Election had predicted an easy win for the Labour party led by Harold Wilson.

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1975 UK Lord Lucan

1975 : An inquest jury decides that missing Earl Lord Lucan is found guilty of the murder of the 29-year-old nanny of his three young children. Lord Lucan has not been seen since the night the nanny Sandra Rivett died on 7 November 1974. Lord Lucan was never found and was officially declared dead in October 1999.

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1978 U.S.A. Garfield

1978 : First Garfield comic strip appears 41 American newspapers.

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1980 Iraq British Embassy Attacked

1980 : An attack on the British embassy by attackers, armed with automatic weapons and grenades, ends when three of the attackers are shot dead by Iraqi security forces. No British embassy staff were injured during the attack.

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1999 Great Britain Prince Edward Marries

1999 : Prince Edward married commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Following the wedding they take the titles of His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex and Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex. Prince Edward is seventh in the line of succession to the British Throne.

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2000 Great Britain Illegal Immigrants

2000 : The bodies of 58 Chinese illegal immigrants have been found in the back of a Dutch-registered lorry at the English port of Dover during a routine search of the lorry. The illegal trafficking of immigrants has been increasing through British Ports as immigration rules are tightened.

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Today in Labor History June 19th

 

Slaves were declared free in Texas, a date now celebrated each year as the holiday “Juneteenth.” – 1865

The kangaroo trial of eight anarchists for the Haymarket bombing began in Chicago on this date. – 1886

Silk workers struck in Paterson, New Jersey. The event escalated into a riot. Silk workers had struck several times in the 19th century and again in 1913, led by the IWW. – 1902

An eight-hour workday was adopted for federal employees. – 1912

AFL President Samuel Gompers and Secretary of War Newton Baker signed an agreement establishing a three-member board of adjustment to control wages, hours and working conditions for construction workers employed on government projects. The agreement protected union wage and hour standards for the duration of World War I. – 1917

The first important sit-down strike in American history was conducted by workers at a General Tire Company factory in Akron, Ohio.  The United Rubber Workers union was founded a year later. – 1934

The Women’s Day Massacre: during the Great Ohio Steel Strike of 1937, there were numerous street battles between workers and police, including the Youngstown Riots and Poland Avenue Riot on June 21st. On June 19th, there were smaller battles that some believe were initiated by the cops to test the likely extent of union resistance in a real fight. When the cops in Youngstown couldn’t find any union leaders to beat up, they went after women picketers who were sitting in chairs to support the strike. One union organizer later recalled, “When I got there I thought the Great War had started over again. Gas was flying all over the place and shots flying and flares going up and it was the first time I had ever seen anything like it in my life…” – 1937

The ILWU organized a four-day strike of  sugar, pineapple, and allied workers to protest convictions under the anti-communist Smith Act of seven activists, “the Hawai’i Seven.” The convictions were later overturned by a federal appeals court. – 1953

Important Events From This day in History June 14th

 

1954 U.S.A. Cold War Civil Defense Drill

1954 : As the continuing Cold War jitters hit America in the Fifties a large scale nationwide civil defense drill is held where the simulation of over 12 million Americans die in a mock nuclear attack. The event stood as a stark reminder that the United States and the world was now living under a nuclear shadow. This in turn did help to get the leaders of the worlds 2 largest nuclear powers to work together to stop the spread of nuclear proliferation and eventually to agree to dismantle many nuclear weapons . At that time many believed that any nuclear war would end in both countries being destroyed with no winner only losers.

1929 U.S.A. Population 120 Million

1929 : The population in the US continues to grow at a rate of 1.4 million a year with current census estimates predicting 120,000,000 next year.

1939 U.S.A.transatlantic commercial service

1939 : A second transatlantic commercial service is planned using the latest in flying boats.

1939 U.S.A. Electricity Prices Decreasing

1939 : As the use of electricity increases the cost has come down an example below:

In 1921 the cost to light a 100 watt lamp for two hours was 1 1/2 cents

In 1939 the cost to light a 100 watt lamp for two hours was 3/4 cent

1940 German Tanks Arrive In Paris

1940 : German tanks rolled into Paris and took control of the city and the German Gestapo went to work with arrests and interrogations as a gigantic swastika flew beneath the Arc de Triomphe.

1942 Holland Anne Frank Diary

1942 : Anne Frank began her diary after she receives it for her 13th birthday, the diary details her life in hiding from the Nazis in hidden rooms in her father Otto Frank's office building and has become one of the world's most widely read books. She died while held in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp of typhus in March 1945.

1943 U.S.A. Salute The Flag

1943 : In the case of West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, the United States Supreme Court decided that schoolchildren cannot be forced to give a salute to the United States flag.

1954 U.S.A. Pledge of Allegiance

1954 : President Eisenhower signed a bill to add the words "under God" to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

1961 UK Zebra Crossings

1961 : Following increasing numbers of accidents at uncontrolled zebra crossings a new type of road crossing with push button controls which will allow pedestrians to stop traffic with flashing lights is to be introduced next year.

1967 U.S.A. Mariner 5 Spacecraft

1967 : The Mariner 5 spacecraft raced a heavier Soviet probe toward Venus to penetrate with electronic fingers the planet's mysterious veil of clouds and help scientists see if Venus is a fit place to live, In the end the glory did go the Soviet Probe which did reach Venus 1 day ahead of Mariner 5.

1972 U.S.A. Pilots Organize Worldwide Strike

1972 : Following a series of plane hijackings The International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations (IFALPA) has called a 24-hour stoppage for June 19th and accused governments of failing to take action to halt air piracy.

1973 U.S.A. Dr. Benjamin Spock

1973 : Dr. Benjamin Spock (famous author of The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care) and three others, including Yale University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, Jr., are convicted of conspiring to aid, abet, and counsel draft registrants to violate the Selective Service Act.

1977 U.S.A. 65% Non Smoking Seats

1977 : Non-Smokers win court battle with Eastern Airlines which required Eastern to have at least 65% non smoking seats, this was a landmark case in many ways and the forerunner to smoking being banned on all flights.

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Today in Labor History June 14th, 2023

 

UNIVAC I

UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer, was installed at the U.S. Census Bureau. – 1951

In West Virginia, which was under martial law due to ongoing violence between miners and thugs hired by the mining companies, state police and vigilantes raided the Lick Creek tent colony. 47 strikers were arrested. Within a few months, much of Southwestern West Virginia would be engaged in the largest civil uprising in US history, as 10,000-15,000 coal miners battled cops and scabs. – 1921

In San Pedro, California, the Ku Klux Klan attacked members of the Industrial Workers of the World at the IWW’s meeting hall during a benefit for the families of two workers killed in a railroad accident. The KKK beat many of the 300 members. They kidnapped, tarred, and feathered others scalded two children by burning them

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Important Events From This day in History June 10th

 

US Naval Dirigible

1921 : The US Naval Dirigible made a forced landing on a San Diego high School Campus after the under work collapsed under the Air Ship and narrowly missed the school flagpole.

1940 Norway Surrenders To Germany

1940 : Two months after starting the invasion of Norway Germany gains full control when Norway surrenders . One other interesting fact is that the word Quisling came from the name of the Norwegian minister of defense Vidkun Quisling.

1940 Italy Declares War on France and Great Britain

1940 : Italy declares war on France and Great Britain.

1947 Sweden SAAB First Car Produced

1947 : Saab a supplier of military aircraft before and during World War II produces their first car in attempt to diversify the model 92 prototype.

1961 USA President Kennedy

1961 : After injuries sustained while on a trip to Canada President Kennedy back injury is improving although he is still using crutches to get around.

1967 Middle East Six Day War Ends

1967 : Israel and Syria agree to observe the UN mediated cease-fire ending six days of Israeli fighting against Egypt, Jordan and Syrian forces.

1977 USA James Earl Ray

1977 : James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., escaped from a maximum security prison in Tennessee, he was recaptured three days later.

1978 USA Affirmed Wins Triple Crown

1978 : Affirmed wins the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown, one year after Seattle Slew wins it in 1977.

1980 South Africa Nelson Mandela

1980 : Nelson Mandela the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress (ANC) makes public a statement from a letter written by Nelson Mandela and smuggled out of prison "UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!"

1986 South Africa Civil Unrest

1986 : The Civil unrest continues in South Africa in Shanty Towns with Young Black protesters attacked by self styled conservative militia armed with guns , clubs and Knives, The Militia are attacking hospitals and schools and burning them to the ground with a number of deaths and casualties reported.

1986 UK Brighton Bombing Grand Hotel

1986 : Patrick Joseph Magee is convicted of planting the bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton during the 1984 Conservative Party conference which killed five people and nearly wiped out most of Margaret Thatcher's cabinet on October 12th 1984.

1996 Iraq Biological Weapons

1996 : UN Experts and Iraq Officials have started dismantling a Biological Weapons Factory outside of Baghdad as called for by sanctions imposed by the UN following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

2000 UK Millennium Bridge

2000 : The new Millennium Bridge connecting St Paul's Cathedral to the Tate Modern gallery on the South Bank across the Thames is closed after it begins swaying violently in the wind under the weight of hundreds of pedestrians on opening day.

2002 USA Dirty Bomb

2002 : Attorney General John Ashcroft announces that José Padilla a.k.a. Abdulla al-Muhajir was arrested in Chicago on May 8th, 2002, on suspicion that he was an Al-Qaeda terrorist planning to detonate a dirty bomb in the U.S. A dirty bomb is a radiological dispersal device (RDD), which combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. The effects are not the same as a nuclear bomb Nuclear bomb is a weapon of mass destruction compared with. Dirty bomb is a weapon of mass disruption. A dirty bomb may not be hugely destructive in physical terms, it would have a huge psychological effect.

2007 Australia Man Made Fires For Climate Control

2007 : After many years of problems for both the indigenous people (Aborigines) of Australia and an increase of major bush fires wiping out large tracts of land and sometimes affecting major cities, Australia has embraced the Aborigines ancient traditions of indigenous fire management by burning areas of the Australian Outback to act as wild fire breaks just after the rains to stop wild fires spreading uncontrollable later in the year. The project has been made possible by the most unlikely of companies ConocoPhillips who have agreed to pay the Aborigines A$1m ($850,000) a year, for 17 years, to offset 100,000 tons of the refinery's own greenhouse emissions. The half a million Aborigines in Australia have long suffered from huge social problems in dysfunctional communities ravaged by domestic violence and alcoholism as the governments plans to assimilate them into the mainstream have largely failed, but schemes like this may well provide the opportunity for them to provide a service they understand better than anybody else and helping in the fight against global warming.

2008 USA Storms In Midwest Taking a Toll

2008 : After 7 days of violent storms in the Midwest starting on June 3rd a number of US states are now suffering serious flooding due to rivers bursting their banks, and reservoirs overflowing. The states worst affected are : Iowa with Iowa City under severe flood warnings. Illinois where levees have failed causing thousands of acres of farmland to be flooded causing concerns over this years crops which were already predicted to be lower than normal. Indiana where the White River has breached in a number of places. Wisconsin where rivers have reached flood level and in areas of Milwaukee main roads are now closed. Five states have now declared a state of emergency in one or more counties and concerns over further storms scheduled for later in the week could bring even more flooding.

2008 Greek Industrialist Captured

2008 : One of Greece's top aluminum industrialists was kidnapped by gunmen. George Mylonas was taken from his home in Thessaloniki. Police began searching for him immediately and set up roadblocks along the northern border of the country. The motive for the abduction was unclear.

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Today in Labor History June 10, 2023

 

Signing the Equal Pay Act

Unions were legalized in Canada. – 1872

A massive strike by miners occurred in Coeur d’Alenes, Idaho. In order to prevent scabs from working the mines while they were on strike, workers destroyed and seized mines. The strike was broken after the state declared martial law. – 1892

In an effort to break the picket line by striking steelworkers at Newton Steel, a subsidiary of Republic Steel in Monroe, Michigan, a vigilante mob deputized by city leaders attack with tear gas and clubs. Workers and union supporters were gassed, chased and beaten and eight people were injured and hospitalized. An inquiry later revealed that Republic Steel had paid the city for the purchase of the weapons. – 1937

The United States Supreme Court ruled on Anderson et al. v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Company, also known as the “portal-to-portal” case, finding that preliminary work activities, where controlled by the employer and performed entirely for the employer’s benefit, are considered working time under the Fair Labor Standards Act.  In 1947, Congress enacted the Portal-to-Portal Act to amend the FLSA in light of the court’s ruling. – 1946

The Equal Pay Act was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy. The law prohibits employers from paying men and women different wages for the same job. – 1963

Important Events From This day in History June 9th

 

1934 USA Donald Duck

1934 : Donald Duck makes his first film appearance, in The Wise Little Hen, a short by Walt Disney.

1973 USA Secretariat Triple Crown Winner

1973 : Secretariat became horse racing's first Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes) winner in 25 years by winning the Belmont Stakes. The previous triple crown winner was Citation in 1948.

2006 USA Cope Act

2006 : Congress passes the Cope Act by 321-101 votes. The Cope (Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement) Act is a major overhaul of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 with a large number of changes some good and needed but some which may well cause the largest changes to how we are allowed to use the Internet once we have paid an ISP for a connection. Below I have included the most important part of the act and an example of how I believe it will effect ordinary subscribers and how some subscribers are being affected today.
Network Neutrality - What Is It?
Network Neutrality broadly means that once you have paid for your subcription to the Internet how you use the access is up to you, and all service speeds (the speed a page or download is delivered to your browser) are free and equal of limits via the ISP'S.
What Effect could it have on your Internet Access
The company who provide your Internet Access Could define which VOIP ( Voice Over IP Telephone Service ) i.e. block those they do not supply.
The company who provide your Internet Access could define where you download music or video from.
The company who provide your Internet Access could even in the worst case define which shops were available through your connection and which were not (possibly only companies who payed the ISP would be accessible).
The company who provide your Internet Access could even in the worst case define which search engine you could or could not use.
As you can see unless a form of Network Neutrality is put back in the new bill, the internet we all use could change. Current use of this ending of Network Neutrality is being used by Comcast who are slowing down certain protocols for example the BitTorrent protocol because the BitTorrent protocol is used to transfer large files including full-length videos partly because it competes with the cable company’s own video-on-demand and television offerings.
Current ISP Problems - Like all things there are two sides to any story and currently 10% of subscribers to ISP'S can easily use 60% of the available bandwidth making access slow for the rest of the subscribers. Removing Network Neutrality should not be used as the answer as it could and will be used by some for the monetary gain. If ISP'S wish to address the issue they should begin offering a service which is based on users usage (not how it is used) this would possibly make Internet access cheaper for most placing the cost on the heaviest users.

1930 USA Mobster Hit

1930 : Jake Lingle, a reporter at the Chicago Tribune, was shot and killed today at the Illinois Central train station as part of a gangland hit as the reporter knew to much about the Gangs operating in Chicago.

1943 USA Car Tax Registration

1943 : Automobile Tax Stamps will go on sale tomorrow costing $5.00 all cars must display a tax stamp by July 1st, also all applications for Ration Books 3 must be in the mail by tomorrow.

1943 USA Federal Income Tax Changes

1943 : New laws are passed which require employers to withhold federal taxes from weekly paychecks. This changed the earlier format where taxes were paid in one lump sum at the end of each year, and has been called "Pay As You Go tax."

1953 USA Tornadoes Hit Flint, Michigan

1953 : A series of 6 Tornadoes hit the area of Flint in Michigan and parts of Ohio yesterday killing over 140 people and leaving billions of dollars in property damage, Flint was still trying to clean up after the last series of Tornadoes on May 31 just a few weeks ago.

Today in Labor History June 9th

 

Labor activist Helen Marot

Labor activist Helen Marot was born on this day. Marot was a librarian from a wealthy family in Philadelphia, who investigated working conditions among children and women. During her life, she participated in numerous labor organizations, particularly those dedicated to the interests of women, such as the Women’s Trade Union League and the Bookkeepers, Stenographers, and Accountants Union in New York. She also organized and led the 1909-1910 Shirtwaist Strike in New York and was part of a commission that investigated the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire in 1912. – 1865

The US passed anti-anarchist legislation designed to quell the rising power of anarchists in the labor movement. – 1902

Important Events From This day in History June 5th

 

1967 Middle East The Six-Day War

1967 : The Six-Day War begins when Israel launches simultaneous attacks against Egypt and Syria, Jordan also joined the fray, but the Arab coalition was no match for Israel's proficient armed forces. In six days of fighting, Israel occupied the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, the Golan Heights of Syria, and the West Bank and Arab sector of East Jerusalem, By the time the United Nations cease-fire took effect on June 11th, Israel had more than doubled its size.

1922 USA Unions

1922 : The Supreme Court decides that Union organizations are liable for damage or injury caused during strikes. The decision was regarded as one of the biggest blows to labor unions.

1930 USA Mobsters

1930 : The Illinois State Prosecutor made a public statement that gang murder in Chicago has taken a grizzly turn and mobsters are now cremating victims to stop identification and evidence.

1944 UK D-Day Preparations

1944 : Following a number of crushing defeats in Europe the Allies prepare for the D-Day landing when more than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast, while 3,000 Allied ships cross the English Channel in preparation for the invasion of Normandy-D-Day. This proved to be the turning point for the war in Europe.

1945 Germany Borders Set

1945 : The United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia formally strip Germany of all conquests it acquired under Nazi rule. The "Big Four" reduced the country's borders to those of which it held in 1937. They also set up a military government over the country while getting the country's unconditional surrender.

1953 USA Fireworks Explosions

1953 : An Alco Fireworks and Specialty Company warehouse and factory exploded killing four people in Houston, Texas. Over 400,000 pounds of fireworks exploded in the factory which in addition to the deaths injured 73 people. The cause of the explosion was said to be due to a general manager hammering nails into a display.

1956 USA Elvis Presley

1956 : Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog," on The Milton Berle Show. and scandalized the audience with his suggestive hip gyrations.

1963 England Profumo Affair

1963 : British Secretary of War John Profumo resigns following revelations that he had lied to the House of Commons about his sexual affair with Christine Keeler, who was also involved with Yevgeny "Eugene" Ivanov, a Soviet naval attache who some suspected was a spy.

1968 US Senator Robert Kennedy Assassinated

1968 : Senator Robert Kennedy is assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary, he died the following day on June 6th.

1974 Switzerland Peace Deal Golan Heights

1974 : Israel and Syria signed a disengagement agreement in regards to their conflict in Golan Heights. They agreed to begin pulling back forces within a day of the agreement. They also agreed to exchange prisoners of war. The United States Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger negotiated the deal.

1981 USA AIDS

1981 : The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report announcing that cases of rare pneumonia were found among five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California which was later identified as the Aids Virus.

1989 Poland Solidarity

1989 : Solidarity who are anti-communist party in Poland, looks set to claim success in the country's elections. Due to the conditions set by the controlling communist party in Poland the communists will still remain in control, as the opposition has been allowed to contest only one third of the seats.

1998 USA GM Strikes

1998 : A strike begins at a Detroit GM car parts factory which closed five assembly plants and idled workers nationwide lasting for seven weeks.

1998 Ethiopia / Eritrea Border Fighting

1998 : The border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea continues to escalate following fighting with heavy artillery, mortars and small arms across a broad valley in the mountainous Alitena region both countries have now begun launching air raids against the other's territory.

2000 Indonesia Earthquake Sumatra

2000 : An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale has struck the western island of Sumatra leaving many dead and buried and hundreds of buildings down, the airport is now closed and electricity and water supplies to the area have been cut.

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Today in Labor History June 5, 2023

 

GM on Strike

Sixty-Seven anarchists were arrested and set up for deportation in the wake of a bomb explosion, marking the beginning of the infamous “Palmer raids” that ultimately led to the deportations and imprisonment of thousands of union members, communists, and anarchists. – 1919

Thirty-five members of the Teamsters, concerned about the infiltration of organized crime in the union and other issues, meet in Cleveland to form Teamsters for a Democratic Union. – 1976

A strike began at a General Motors Corporation parts factory in Flint, Michigan that spread and ultimately forced the closure of GM plants across the country for seven weeks. The Flint workers were protesting the removal of key dies from their plant and feared their jobs would be lost. The company ended the dispute by assuring the plant would remain open until at least the year 2000. – 1998

Important Events From This day in History June 3rd

 

1953 England Queen Elizabeth II

1953 : Following the death of her father Queen Elizabeth II is formally crowned as The Queen in England with hundreds of millions listening on radio and for the first time watched the proceedings on live television. After the coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey , millions of rain-drenched spectators cheered the 27-year-old queen born in 1926 and her husband, the 30-year-old duke of Edinburgh, as they passed along a five-mile procession route in a gilded horse-drawn carriage.

1935 USA Babe Ruth Retires

1935 : Babe Ruth, retires ending his Major League playing career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs.

1921 USA Colorado Flash Floods

1921 : Flash Floods caused by Torrential rains leaves more than 100 people dead and millions of dollars in property damaged Pueblo County in Colorado.

1924 USA Indian Citizenship Act

1924 : The Indian Citizenship Act, which confers citizenship on all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the country is passed in Congress.

1924 Canada Japanese Immigrants

1924 : The Canadian government considers making an agreement with Japan that would essentially ban the majority of Japanese immigrants coming into the country. The Canadian government would permit a total of 150 Japanese immigrants to come into he country each year to work as farm laborers or household servants.

1931 France Suspension Bridge Collapses

1931 : Ten people were killed in France during the testing of a new suspension bridge that was built. Nine trucks fell into the Gironde river when the bridge collapsed at its opening. The builder of the bridge was included among the dead.

1949 USA Uranium-235 Missing

1949 : An atomic bottle holding one ounce of uranium-235 that was missing was found. Seven-eighths of the uranium-235 that was in the bottle was accounted for, while one-eighth was still missing. The laboratory in Chicago which originally lost the bottle reported it lost in February.

1956 USA Matthew Woll

1956 : Matthew Woll, a man associated with the American labor movement dies at age 76. He was a leader in the labor movement for nearly 50 years and served as Vice President of the AFL-CIO and International Photoengravers Union.

1965 Vietnam Australian Troops Arrive

1965 : The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives by plane in Saigon as Australia takes a more active role in the Vietnam War.

1966 Space Surveyor 1 Moon Landing

1966 : First US space probe to land on the moon, "Surveyor 1" has a soft landing on Moon. The Soviet Union was the first when the Russian probe Luna 9 had a successful soft landing on the moon on February 3rd earlier in 1966.

1972 USA United Airlines Plane Hijack

1972 : In Reno, Nevada a United Airlines jet was hijacked by one man. He demanded a $200,000 ransom while the plane remained grounded. His only hostages were crew members since passengers had not boarded yet.

1979 Poland Pope John Paul II

1979 : Pope John Paul II returns home to his native Poland as the first Roman Catholic pontiff to visit a Communist-ruled country.

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Today in Labor History June 3rd, 2023

 

International Ladies Garment Workers Union

The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) was formed.  At its founding convention, delegates represented roughly 2,000 members.  The ILGWU grew to become one of the largest unions in the US, with 450,000 members at its peak in 1969.  It merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union in 1995 to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE). – 1900

A federal child labor law that had been enacted in 1916 was declared unconstitutional. A new version was enacted on February 24, 1919, but was also later declared unconstitutional. It was not until the 1930s that child labor provisions were enacted as part of sweeping labor law reforms, through the exploitation of children continues to be a problem in the United States today. – 1918

John Fountain Rest in Peace

I learned the sad news last night, and offer condolences to the Fountain Family at this most trying time. John worked as a pressroom supervisor for the Los Angeles Times Chatsworth production facility. I will share additional information as it comes in.

Today in Labor History June 2

 

Printers in Philadelphia began what was to be a successful strike to protest a reduction in their wages from 45 shillings to 35 shillings a week.  According to Henry Rosemont, the International Typographical Union’s unofficial historian, “these were the first American workers who deliberately voted to stand out for a specific wage and to provide mutual assistance in maintaining it.” – 1786

The Western Federation of Miners (WFM), which organized the 1907 Mesabi Range Strike, was uninterested in organizing miners in 1916. This left a vacuum that the much more radical IWW gladly filled. The Wobblies sent many of their top organizers to help and succeeded in recruiting many of the people who served as strikebreakers in 1907 to join the current strike. Carlos Tresca, an IWW leader, was arrested for murder in conjunction with the strike but was released without trial. Tresca went on to oppose Mussolini and the fascists, as well as the Stalinists in the USSR. He was assassinated in 1943. The Mesabi Strike was suppressed violently by police and vigilantes, with numerous strikers being jailed. The struggle was a precursor to the infamous labor deportations in Bisbee, Arizona in July 1917, in which 1,300 Wobblies, their supporters, and even innocent bystanders, were rounded up, forced into cattle cars, and dumped in the desert after 16 hours without food or water. – 1916

Anarchists carried out a series of coordinated bombings across the Eastern United States, damaging the homes of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, who had launched the first Red Hunt against unionists, commies, and anarchists, as well as then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. – 1919

A constitutional amendment declaring that “Congress shall have the power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age” was approved by the Senate on this day, following the lead of the House five weeks earlier. But only 28 state legislatures ever ratified the amendment, the last three in 1937, so it has never taken effect. – 1924

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Harry Truman had no authority when he seized control of the nation’s steel mills on April 8, the day before a nationwide steelworkers’ strike was set to begin in order to keep them in production for the Korean War effort. 600,000 steelworkers went on strike on June 3, effectively ending production for the next six weeks. – 1952

The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and the Textile Workers Union of America merged to form the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. – 1976

Important Events From This day in History June 2nd

 

1953 England Queen Elizabeth II

1953 : Following the death of her father Queen Elizabeth II is formally crowned as The Queen in England with hundreds of millions listening on radio and for the first time watched the proceedings on live television. After the coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey , millions of rain-drenched spectators cheered the 27-year-old queen born in 1926 and her husband, the 30-year-old duke of Edinburgh, as they passed along a five-mile procession route in a gilded horse-drawn carriage.

1935 USA Babe Ruth Retires

1935 : Babe Ruth, retires ending his Major League playing career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs.

1921 USA Colorado Flash Floods

1921 : Flash Floods caused by Torrential rains leaves more than 100 people dead and millions of dollars in property damaged Pueblo County in Colorado.

1924 USA Indian Citizenship Act

1924 : The Indian Citizenship Act, which confers citizenship on all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the country is passed in Congress.

1924 Canada Japanese Immigrants

1924 : The Canadian government considers making an agreement with Japan that would essentially ban the majority of Japanese immigrants coming into the country. The Canadian government would permit a total of 150 Japanese immigrants to come into he country each year to work as farm laborers or household servants.

1931 France Suspension Bridge Collapses

1931 : Ten people were killed in France during the testing of a new suspension bridge that was built. Nine trucks fell into the Gironde river when the bridge collapsed at its opening. The builder of the bridge was included among the dead.

1949 USA Uranium-235 Missing

1949 : An atomic bottle holding one ounce of uranium-235 that was missing was found. Seven-eighths of the uranium-235 that was in the bottle was accounted for, while one-eighth was still missing. The laboratory in Chicago which originally lost the bottle reported it lost in February.

1956 USA Matthew Woll

1956 : Matthew Woll, a man associated with the American labor movement dies at age 76. He was a leader in the labor movement for nearly 50 years and served as Vice President of the AFL-CIO and International Photoengravers Union.

1965 Vietnam Australian Troops Arrive

1965 : The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives by plane in Saigon as Australia takes a more active role in the Vietnam War.

1966 Space Surveyor 1 Moon Landing

1966 : First US space probe to land on the moon, "Surveyor 1" has a soft landing on Moon. The Soviet Union was the first when the Russian probe Luna 9 had a successful soft landing on the moon on February 3rd earlier in 1966.

1972 USA United Airlines Plane Hijack

1972 : In Reno, Nevada a United Airlines jet was hijacked by one man. He demanded a $200,000 ransom while the plane remained grounded. His only hostages were crew members since passengers had not boarded yet.

1979 Poland Pope John Paul II

1979 : Pope John Paul II returns home to his native Poland as the first Roman Catholic pontiff to visit a Communist-ruled country.

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Important Events From This day in History June 1st

 Just a few news items from each day in June click on the link for each day to find more news for that day

1st June

1935 Compulsory Driving Test is introduced for all drivers in England.

1938 Superman appears for the first time in D.C. comics.

1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released by The Beatles.

1980 The first 24-hour news television station, CNN, launched in Atlanta, Georgia.

1923 Great Britain World War I Loans To France

1923 : Both Great Britain and the United States are demanding back the loans made to France borrowed during the First World War but the french answer is both Britain and America are much richer nations and as the war was a world war they should not have to pay the money back, negotiations are continuing at diplomatic levels.

1933 USA Roger Williams

1933 : The aviator, Roger Williams, announces his plans to fly a round-trip flight across the Atlantic ocean. His flight plans start from New York and include stops in Rome, Greece, and Ireland. He plans to end in Chicago. It was set to start his flight on July 24th in a Bellanca plane.

1938 Superman Appears For The First Time

1938 : Superman created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster made his first appearance in D.C. Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1 which sold for 10 cents.

1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

1967 : One of the most iconic LP's from the 1960s Music is released by The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sold over 8 million copies worldwide.

1968 USA Helen Keller

1968 : The famous blind and deaf author Helen Keller who become a world-famous speaker, Political Activist and author, Helen Keller, dies.

1935 England Compulsory Driving Test

1935 : Compulsory Driving Test is introduced for all drivers in England who started driving on or after April 1st 1934, A voluntary test was introduced by the Road Traffic Act in 1934 and the first person in Britain to take the test and pass his driving test is Mr R.E.L.BEERE. The test took place on the 16th March 1935. The son of Mr R.E.L.BEERE. still has the certificate 00001 signed in behalf of the (then) Minister of Transport. All drivers buying a temporary driving license must now put ‘L’ plates on the car and take a driving test to get their full license.

1942 Poland Extermination Camps

1942 : A Warsaw underground newspaper, the Liberty Brigade, is the first public newspaper to tell the world about the Nazi extermination camps in Poland where tens of thousands of Jews were murdered in Chelmno.

1944 France World War II

1944 : The British Broadcasting Corp. aired the coded message from the first line of a poem by Paul Verlaine to underground resistance fighters in France to inform the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.

1946 Great Britain First TV Licence Introduced

1946 : The British Broadcasting Corporation/BBC introduces the first TV Licence costing £2 for the British Public. This was in addition to a Radio Licence which cost about 10 shillings (50p). Current TV licence fee is £147.00.

1947 U.S.A. Tornado Arkansas

1947 : A tornado kills an estimated 30 people and leaves over 500 people homeless in Arkansas. Many rural communities were hit by the tornado and destroyed. The storm's path was an estimated 20 miles long, and could have been up to 10 miles wide.

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Today in Labor History June 1st, 2023

 

W. E. DuBois

Based in Illinois, the Ladies Federal Labor Union Number 2703 was granted a charter from the American Federation of Labor. Women from a wide range of occupations were among the members, who were ultimately successful in coalescing women’s groups interested in suffrage, temperance, health, housing, and child labor reform to win state legislation in these areas. – 1888

Union Carpenters won a 25-cents-per-day raise, bringing wages for a nine-hour day to $2.50. – 1898

Congress passed the Erdman Act, providing for voluntary mediation or arbitration of railroad disputes. It prohibited contracts that discriminated against union labor or released employers from legal liability for on-the-job injuries. – 1898

3,500 immigrant miners began the Clifton-Morenci, Arizona copper strike. – 1903

W. E. B. DuBois founded the NAACP. – 1909

US troops arrived in Colorado to reclaim coal mines from striking miners after the Colorado National Guard massacred 19 in the miners’ camp. Two women and eleven children were among those killed. – 1914

12,500 longshoremen struck the Pacific coast, from San Diego to Bellingham. Their demands included a closed shop and a wage increase to 55 cents an hour for handling general cargo. – 1916

Farm workers at La Casita Farms in Starr County, Texas went on strike over wages and union recognition. The melon strike became the first major civil rights event in the state during the late 1960s. Brutality by Texas Rangers and local law enforcement broke the strike after a year. – 1966

Two Filipino longshore labor organizers, Domingo and Viernes, were assassinated in Seattle, Washington on orders of US-backed dictator Ferdinand Marcos. – 1981

Meatpackers at the Dakota Premium Foods plant in St. Paul, Minnesota carried out a successful seven-hour sit-down strike to protest a speedup on the production line that was causing increased injuries on the job.  The workers went on to join the UFCW Local 789. – 2000

General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The filing made the automaker the largest U.S. Industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection. It went on to recover thanks to massive help from the UAW and the federal government – 2009