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This week in Labor History - February 13

(Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff is an encyclopedic guide to 350 labor films from around the world, ranging from those you’ve heard of—Salt of the Earth, The Grapes of Wrath, Roger & Me—to those you’ve never heard of but will fall in love with once you see them. Fiction and nonfiction, the films are about unions, labor history, working-class life, political movements, and the struggle between labor and capital.)

This week in Labor History - February 13

This week in Labor History - February 12

  
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass born into slavery near Easton, Md. - 1818
 
John L. Lewis, president of United Mine Workers of America and founding president of the CIO, born near Lucas, Iowa - 1880
 

This week in Labor History - February 12

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