February 15

U.S. legislators pass the Civil Works Emergency Relief Act, providing funds for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, which funneled money to states plagued by Depression-era poverty and unemployment, and oversaw the subsequent distribution and relief efforts - 1934 Also on this date: Susan B. Anthony, suffragist, abolitionist, labor activist, born in Adams, Mass; The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) expels the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers; the Food, Tobacco & Agricultural Workers; and the United Office & Professional Workers for “Communist tendencies.” … U.S. legislators pass the Civil Works Emergency Relief Act, providing funds for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, which funneled money to states plagued by Depression-era poverty and unemployment, and oversaw the subsequent distribution and relief efforts - 1934Also on this date: Susan B. Anthony, suffragist, abolitionist, labor activist, born in Adams, Mass. The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) expels the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, the Food, Tobacco & Agricultural Workers; and the United Office & Professional Workers for “Communist tendencies.” .More info & ammo for unionists is availableonline from Union Communication Services.

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