March 6

Joe Hill’s song “There Is Power In A Union” appears in “Little Red Song Book,” published by the Wobblies - 1913 Joe Hill’s song “There Is Power In A Union” appears in “Little Red Song Book,” published by the Wobblies - 1913Also on this date: Sailors’ Union of the Pacific founded in San Francisco. Knights of Labor picket to protest high-flying Wall Street financier Jay Gould. With the Great Depression underway, hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers demonstrated in some 30 cities and towns. International Brotherhood of Paper Makers merges with United Paperworkers of America to become United Papermakers & Paperworkers. The federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act is enacted. Predominantly young workers at a Lordstown, Ohio GM assembly plant stage a wildcat strike, largely in objection to the grueling workpace. President Jimmy Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley law to halt the 1977-78 strike by the United Mine Workers of America. Nation’s unemployment rate soared to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983.More info & ammo for unionists is availableonline from Union Communication Services.

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