Today in Labor History July 50,000 lumberjacks strike for 8 hour day, 1/2 million steelworkers strik

[Omaha Steve]

July 15

50,000 lumberjacks strike for eight-hour day - 1917

Robert Gray, an African-American sharecropper and leader of the Share Croppers Union, is murdered in Cap Hill, Alabama - 1931

A half-million steelworkers begin what is to become a 116-day strike that shutters nearly every steel mill in the country. Management wanted to dump contract language limiting its ability to change the number of workers assigned to a task or to introduce new work rules or machinery that would result in reduced hours or fewer employees - 1959

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history