November 10

Sit-down strike begins at Austin, Minn. Hormel plant with the help of a Wobbly organizer, leading to the creation of the Independent Union of All Workers.  Labor historians believe this may have been the first sit-down strike of the 1930s.  Workers held the plant for three days, demanding a wage increase. Some 400 men crashed through the plant entrance and chased out nonunion workers.  One group rushed through the doors of a conference room where Jay Hormel and five company executives were meeting and declared: “We’re taking possession.  So move out.”  Within four days the company agreed to binding arbitration - 1933

The ship Edmund Fitzgerald -- the biggest carrier on the Great Lakes -- and crew of 29 are lost in a storm on Lake Superior while carrying ore from Superior, Wisc. to Detroit. The cause of the sinking was never established - 1975

Tile, Marble, Terrazzo Finishers, Shop Workers & Granite Cutters International Union merges into United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners - 1988

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