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This Day in Labor History: May 8, 1935

By Erik Loomis

In General

On May 8, 2025

On May 8, 1935, Mine Mill leads zinc miners out on strike in the Missouri/Kansas/Oklahoma tri-state border area. This strike was unusual because of the political conservatism of many of the workers. And the union completely lost the strike, based largely on its inability to...

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This Day in Labor History: April 20, 1949

By Erik Loomis

On April 20, 2019

On April 20, 1949, United Steelworkers of America members severely beat Maurice Travis, the president of the leftist union Mine, Mill, costing him an eye. This is perhaps the most.

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 266

By Erik Loomis

On June 29, 2018

This is the grave of Clint Jencks. Born in 1918 in Colorado Springs, he graduated from the University of Colorado in Boulder. While there, he became attracted to leftist causes.

This Day in Labor History: March 14, 1954

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 14, 2014

On March 14, 1954, the great labor film Salt of the Earth, a fictionalized version of a 1950 Mine, Mill strike in the zinc mines of southwestern New Mexico, premiered despite being lambasted as a communist plot, subjected to police harassment, and having one of...