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This week in Labor History - February 11

This week in Labor History - February 11

This week in Labor History - February 10

Forty workers are killed on Staten Island, N.Y., when a huge storage tank filled with liquefied gas explodes - 1973

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This week in Labor History - February 10

This week in Labor History - February 9

 
U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy falsely charged that the State Department was riddled with Communists. It seems that just about everyone else the Wisconsin senator didn’t like was a Communist as well, including scores of unionists. This was the beginning of "McCarthyism." He ultimately was officially condemned by the Senate and died of alcoholism - 1950

This week in Labor History - February 9

This week in Labor History - February 8

Vigilantes beat IWW organizers for exercising free-speech rights, San Diego - 1912

This week in Labor History - February 8

This week in Labor History - February 7

It took 1,231 firefighters 30 hours to put down The Great Baltimore Fire, which started on this day and destroyed 1,500 buildings over an area of some 140 acres - 1904

This week in Labor History - February 7

This week in Labor History - February 6

Seattle General Strike begins. The city was run by a General Strike Committee for six days as tens of thousands of union members stopped work in support of 32,000 striking longshoremen - 1919

This week in Labor History - February 6