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24 Dec, 2017

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24 Dec, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - Dec. 24

Seventy-two copper miners’ children die in panic caused by a company stooge at Calumet, Mich., who shouted “fire” up the stairs into a crowded hall where the children had gathered. They were crushed against closed doors when they tried to flee - 1913

This Week in Labor History - Dec. 24

23 Dec, 2017

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23 Dec, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - Dec. 23

AFL officers are found in contempt of court for urging a labor boycott of Buck's Stove and Range Co. in St Louis, where the Metal Polishers were striking for a 9-hour day - 1908

Construction workers top out the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 1,368 feet, making it the tallest building in the world - 1970

This Week in Labor History - Dec. 23

22 Dec, 2017

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22 Dec, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - Dec. 22

A group of building trades unions from the Midwest meet in St. Louis to form the National Building Trades Council. The Council disbanded after several years of political and jurisdictional differences - 1897

This Week in Labor History - Dec. 22

21 Dec, 2017

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21 Dec, 2017

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This Week in Labor History - Dec. 21

Powered by children seven to 12 years old working dawn to dusk, Samuel Slater’s thread-spinning factory goes into production in Pawtucket, R.I., launching the Industrial Revolution in America. By 1830, 55 percent of the mill workers in the state were youngsters, many working for less than $1 per week - 1790

Supreme Court rules that picketing is unconstitutional. Chief Justice (and former president) William Howard Taft declared that picketing was, in part, "an unlawful annoyance and hurtful nuisance..." - 1921

This Week in Labor History - Dec. 21