Labor history Sept 5 "Palmer raids", police using tear gas and pistols on the strikers, more

[Omaha Steve]

September 5

20,000 to 30,000 marchers participate in New York's first Labor Day parade, demanding the eight-hour day - 1882

And this: September 5, 1882 - The first Labor Day parade was held. Carpenter Peter McGuire was a prime mover behind the event, which took place in New York City.

"Palmer raids" on all Wobbly halls and offices in 48 cities in U.S. Alexander Palmer, U.S. Attorney General, was rounding up radicals and leftists - 1917


Ten thousand angry textile strikers, fighting for better wages and working conditions, besiege a factory in Fall River, Mass., where 300 strikebreakers are working. The scabs are rescued by police using tear gas and pistols on the strikers - 1934
(Katherine Paterson’s Lyddie is a children’s book about a 13-year-old farm girl who takes a job in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, when hard times hit her family. Six days a week from dawn to dusk she and the other girls run weaving looms in the murky dust and lint-filled factory. Lyddie learns to read -- and to handle the menacing overseer.)

General strike begins across U.S. maritime industry, stopping all shipping. The strikers were objecting to the government's post-war National Wage Stabilization Board order that reduced pay increases negotiated by maritime unions - 1946

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/big-labor/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_09_05_2011

[vim876]

1. Oh man.

I loved that book!!!! :)