June 20

Henry Ford recognizes the United Auto Workers, signs contract for workers at River Rouge plant – 1941

Also on this date: The American Railway Union, headed by Eugene Debs, is founded in Chicago. Striking African American auto workers are attacked by KKK, National Workers League, and armed white workers at Belle Isle amusement park in Detroit. The Taft-Hartley Labor Management Relations Act, curbing strikes, is vetoed by President Harry S Truman. Oil began traveling through the Alaska pipeline; seventy thousand people worked on building the pipeline. Evelyn Dubrow, described by the New York Times as organized labor's most prominent lobbyist at the time of its greatest power, dies at age 95.

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