Today in Labor History Jan 6 Endorses the principle of equal pay for equal work between men and wome

[Omaha Steve]

January 6


January 6, 1878 - Author-poet Carl Sandburg was born in a three-room cottage in Galesburg, Illinois. His working class upbringing was reflected often in writings such as the poem, "Working Girls." Each day they go to work, he wrote, "long lines of them afoot amid the downtown stores and factories, thousands with little brick-shaped lunches wrapped in newspapers under their arms / Each morning as I move through this river of young-woman life I feel a wonder about where it is all going, so many with a peach bloom of young years on them and laughter of red lips and memories in their eyes of dances the night before . . ."

The Toronto Trades and Labour Council endorses the principle of equal pay for equal work between men and women - 1882

8,000 workers strike at Youngstown Sheet & Tube. The following day the strikers’ wives and other family members join in the protest. Company guards use tear gas bombs and fire into the crowd; three strikers are killed, 25 wounded - 1916

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_01_06_2010