Today in Labor History Nov 10 The Edmund Fitzgerald and crew of 29 are lost in a storm & more

[Omaha Steve]

Posted a day late.

November 10

Sit-down strike begins at Austin, Minn. Hormel plant with the help of a Wobbly organizer, leading to the creation of the Independant Union of All Workers - 1933

And this: November 10, 1933 - Members of the Independent Union of All Workers occupied the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota, in what some historians consider the first sitdown strike of the 1930s. Workers held the plant for three days, demanding a wage increase. Governor Floyd B. Olson mediated an agreement between owner Jay Hormel and the union.


The ship Edmund Fitzgerald – the biggest carrier on the Great Lakes – and crew of 29 are lost in a storm on Lake Superior while carrying ore from Superior, Wisc. to Detroit. The cause of the sinking was never established - 1975

Tile, Marble, Terrazzo Finishers, Shop Workers & Granite Cutters International Union merges into United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners - 1988

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_11_10_2010