February 27

 

450 Woolworth’s workers and customers occupy store for eight days in support of Waiters and Waitresses Union, Detroit – 1937 450 Woolworth’s workers and customers occupy store for eight days in support of Waiters and Waitresses Union, Detroit – 1937 Also on this date: Future labor leader and socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs becomes charter member and secretary of the Vigo Lodge, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. Birth of John Steinbeck in Salinas, CA. Thirty-eight miners die in a coal mine explosion in Boissevain, VA. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes are illegal. Mine disaster kills 75 at Red Lodge, MT. More info & ammo for unionists is availableonline from Union Communication Services.

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