On December 22, 1945, port workers at Dakar, Senegal, in French West Africa, went on strike for higher wages. This led to a general strike that forced the French government.
On December 10, 1906, workers at the General Electric plant in Schenectady, New York, conducted a sit-down strike. This is the first known sit-down strike in American history. We don't.
On November 21, 1896, dock workers in Hamburg, Germany went on strike. One of the major working class struggles in German history, the conservative leadership of that nation went ballistic.
On November 11, 1952, management at an Armour meatpacking in Fort Worth, Texas took down the signs for segregated bathrooms on the job after signing a new contract with the.
On October 12, 1962, a powerful storm, a former typhoon that was now a post-tropical storm, came ashore in western Washington and Vancouver Island in Canada. Its size and power.
On October 10, 1842, a planter Eli Capell noted the precise amount of cotton picked by each of his slaves in his logbooks. This seemingly minor moment is in fact.
On September 12, 1934, the Rhode Island National Guard opened fire on a group of people loosely associated with striking textile workers in nearby mills who were throwing rocks and.
On September 4, 1907, about 500 white working men in Bellingham, Washington rioted against the arrival of Punjabi laborers in their border town. They wanted to round them up and.
