April 27

President Dwight Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10450: Security Requirements for Government Employment. The order listed “sexual perversion” as a condition for firing a federal employee and for denying employment to potential applicants - 1953
Also on this date: First strike for 10 hour day, by Boston carpenters…James Oppenheim’s poem “Bread and Roses” published…click here for complete postings.
[Reviving the Strike: How Working People can Regain Power and Transform America: If the American labor movement is to rise again, says author Joe Buns, it will not be as a result of electing Democrats, the passage of legislation, or improved methods of union organizing. Rather, workers will need to rediscover the power of the strike. Not the ineffectual strike of today, where employees meekly sit on picket lines waiting for scabs to take their jobs, but the type of strike capable of grinding industries to a halt—the kind employed up until the 1960s. In the UCS bookstore now.]

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