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.
On March 5, 1972, the workers at General Motors' plant in Lordstown, Ohio went on strike after authorizing it two days prior. They were angry about sped-up work at their.
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On February 26, 1972, a Pittston Coal Company slurry dam collapsed in Logan County, West Virginia. The ensuing flood of coal slurry would kill 125 people and demonstrate once again.
On February 13, 1845, the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association forced the state of Massachusetts to hold hearings on reducing the work day in the state's textile mills to 10.
On the night of January 15, 1915, the IWW writer and propagandist Ralph Chaplin wrote the song "Solidarity Forever." The song is emblematic of Wobbly culture. If there's one thing.
On January 13, 1874, thousands of unemployed New Yorkers met in Tompkins Square Park to protest their unemployment and poverty. There, the police would beat them in the first large-scale.
On January 8, 1811, the largest armed slave uprising in U.S. history took place. The German Coast Uprising in Louisiana had up to 500 participants marching to New Orleans to.
