On March 30, 1891, the National Union of Textile Workers formed. This early attempt to unite New England textile workers did not succeed, but it was an important moment in.
On March 20, 1945, four leaders of a strike among Black WACs at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, were convicted of disobeying orders and sentenced to hard labor. Privates Anna Morrison, Mary.
On March 14, 1882, textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts walked off the job. Thirty years later, a much more famous textile strike would take place in that town. That one.
On March 10, 1959, loggers in Newfoundland organizing with the International Woodworkers of America got into a violent clash with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Newfoundland Constabulary. One.
On February 20, 1917, leftist women in New York City, led by the anarchist Marie Ganz, held a big protest against high food prices. This led to a boycott to.
On February 3, 1908, The Supreme Court decided the case of Loewe v. Lawlor. In it, it declared that unions violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by calling for a secondary.
On January 25, 1960 Mitsui Miike coal mine lockout in Japan began, the single biggest labor dispute in the history of Japan. This was also a core battle to see.
On January 23, 1922, the United Textile Workers led between 70,000 and 85,000 workers out on strike, protesting the continued exploitative reality of work in the apparel factories. This was.
