Today in Labor History July 12 William Wallis Erwin was born, Ariz. deports Wobblies, SAG 1st meetin

[Omaha Steve]

July 12

July 12, 1842 - William Wallis Erwin was born in the town of Erwin, New York. Known as the "Tall Pine," Erwin was a lawyer and contemporary of Clarence Darrow. He moved to St. Paul in 1870, living there for more than 30 years. A fiery orator, Erwin joined Darrow in defending Eugene V. Debs and other leaders of the American Railway Union put on trial for their role in leading the 1894 Pullman strike. The St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly raised money to send Erwin to Homestead, Pennsylvania, where he became chief counsel for the Homestead strikers. "One thing is necessary to preserve common and equal rights," Erwin said, "and that is that every man fall in line and belong to a trades union."


Bisbee, Ariz. deports Wobblies; 1,186 miners sent into desert in manure-laden boxcars. They had been fighting for improved safety and working conditions - 1917 (A Job and a Life: Organizing & Bargaining on Family Issues is a step-by-step guide for union leaders, activists, negotiating teams and organizers, providing the tools needed to advance a successful work and family agenda. Want to negotiate for child care at work? Need to find out how other unionists have confronted family leave issues? Want to learn the best way to rally your members and your community around your work/family concerns? This is your book. In the UCS bookstore now.)

The Screen Actors Guild holds its first meeting. Among those attending: future horror movie star (Frankenstein’s Monster) and union activist Boris Karloff - 1933

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_07_12_2011

[DeSwiss]

1. Also today in history.....

Jul 16 1054
The 'Great Schism' between the Western and Eastern churches began over rival claims of universal pre-eminence. (In 1965, 911 years later, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I met to declare an end to the schism.)

Jul 16 1860
A decree from Emperor Norton I of San Francisco, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, dissolves the United States of America.

Jul 16 1917
The Bolsheviks execute the Czar, Czarina, and their children. Contrary to popular mythos, Anastasia did not escape. DNA tests in the 1990's conclude that the woman who was posing as Anastasia was instead a batty old woman.

Jul 16 1927
Industrialist Henry Ford settles a $1 million libel suit brought by labor organizer Aaron Sapiro. Ford's newsweekly, The Dearborn Independent, had accused Sapiro of being part of a conspiracy of "Jewish bankers" to seize control of national wheat production and hand it over to the Communists.

Jul 16 1945
First Atomic Bomb is exploded at Trinity, Alamagordo New Mexico. The explosion yields the equivalent 18,000 tons of TNT.

Jul 16 1964
In 1964, in accepting the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Sen. Barry M. Goldwater said "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" and that "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

Jul 16 1973
During the Senate's Watergate hearings, former White House aide Alexander Butterfield reveals that President Nixon has a secret tape recording system with lavalier microphones hidden throughout the Oval Office.

Jul 16 1998
An inattentive deputy sheriff in Lafayette, IN, drives his automobile into the stolen tombstone of actor James Dean. The 400 pound tombstone, which was stolen two days prior from Dean's gravesite at Park Cemetery (and later abandoned on a country road), rips the transmission out of the deputy's vehicle.

- K&R




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