Labor History Aug 26 Sellins & Starzeleski murdered by company guards, 19th Amendment women vote mo

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August 26

Fannie Sellins and Joseph Starzeleski are murdered by coal company guards on a picket line in Brackenridge, Penn. Sellins was a United Mine Workers of America organizer and Starzeleski was a miner - 1919


After three-quarters of the states had ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, women win their long struggle for the vote - 1920 (Although nearly half of union members in the United States are female, little more than one leadership position in five is held by a woman. Amy Caizza’s I Knew I Could Do This Work: Seven Strategies That Promote Women’s Activism and Leadership in Unions is designed to promote women’s activism and leadership within unions across the country at the local, state, regional, and national levels. The report outlines seven strategies that unions can use to encourage women’s increased participation in a workforce that is increasingly female. Free shipping on this item, now in the UCS bookstore.)

With America in the depths of the Great Depression, the Comptroller of the Currency announces a temporary halt on foreclosures of first mortgages - 1932


In what some may consider one of the many management decisions that was to help cripple the American auto industry over the following decades, Ford Motor Co. produces its first Edsel. Ford dropped the project two years later after losing approximately $350 million - 1957

More than 1,300 bus drivers on Oahu, Hawaii begin what is to become a five week strike - 2003

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