Labor history Sept 13 orders 25,000 railway mail clerks to shoot to kill, 11 AFSCME guards killed

[Omaha Steve]

Septemeber 13


The Post Office Department orders 25,000 railway mail clerks to shoot to kill any bandits attempting to rob the mail - 1926
History is replete with tales of employers ordering workers to take on horrible tasks. It even happened (and still does, in many places) to children. The Worst Children’s Jobs in History describes some of the most disgusting, abusive and often dangerous jobs dumped on children, as young as three and four, all in the name of profit.

September 13, 1934 - A strike in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, part of a national movement to obtain a minimum wage for textile workers, resulted in the deaths of three workers. Over 420,000 workers ultimately joined the strike throughout the month of September 1934.

Eleven AFSCME-represented prison employees, 33 inmates die in four days of rioting at New York State’s Attica Prison and the retaking of the prison. The riot caused the nation to take a closer look at prison conditions, for inmates and their guards alike - 1971

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/big-labor/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_09_13_2011