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THIS WEEK'S LABOR HISTORY TODAY PODCAST
King's “Mountaintop” speech, how baseball players built one of the most powerful unions in the country, and more!
Find out more and listen to the #podcast at tinyurl.com/3cttxrp5
#LaborHistory #Memphis #Tennessee @afscme.bsky.social
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Hutton outside the Oakland Police Department Jail, in a fedora and glasses, carrying a gun. By http://www.eco-action.org/dod/no9/bobby_hutton.jpg, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29633174
Today in Labor History April 6, 1968: Oakland police attacked the Black Panthers headquarters and assassinated Bobby Hutton, an unarmed teenager.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #blackpanthers #bobbyhutton #oakland #policebrutality #assassination #racism #BlackMastodon
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Still from the Youtube video, “Bavarian Soviet Republic - 1919 Economy and Reconstruction” showing a soldier, fist in the air, with a flame-filled sky in the background.
Today in #LaborHistory 4/6/1919: Bavarian #Soviet Republic declared. #Writer #BTraven (Death Ship, Treasure of Sierra Madre) was on Central Council of Workers. Quashed by Freikorps, incl Rudolf Hess & other future #Nazis. #workingclass #socialism #communism #germany #fiction #writer #author #books
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"The Teamsters' strike in Chicago." May 1, 1905. New-York Tribune (New York, NY), Image 1. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
Today in #LaborHistory 4/6/1905: #Teamsters strike in #solidarity with #Chicago clothing cutters after Montgomery Ward locked out workers 12/04. Bosses tried to ram through armed wagons with #scabs. By May, 21 workers had been killed. #workingclass #unions #GeneralStrike #policebrutality #massacre
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Painting of Tupac Amaru II By Unknown author - http://peru.feeder.ww7.pe/index.php?cal_date=2009-07-29, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9105047
Today in #LaborHistory 4/6/1781: #Tupac Amaru II captured in #Peru after being denounced by a turncoat. Had led #uprising against #Spanish. Inspired #Tupamaros #revolutionary movement in #Uruguay & Túpac Amaru #guerrillas in Peru. #poet #PabloNeruda wrote poem about him. #
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From the Haymarket Affair to the 1905 IWW, workers fought for an 8-hour day and a 40-hour workweek. Let's remember our history and keep fighting for better conditions today. Link in bio for more labor history facts!
Remember when workers fought for weekends? We didn't just get them, we owned them. #WeekendsForThePeople
LaborHistory WeekendsForThePeople WorkerPower
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Photo of Upper Big Branch Mine disaster Memorial by Steven Rotsch, with silhouettes of the victims on black marble wall. By Original work: designed by Rob Dinsmore of the Chapman Technical Group and built by Pray ConstructionDepiction: Steven Rotsch - small 320 size of https://www.flickr.com/photos/governortomblin/7659008962/, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70502796
Today in #LaborHistory 4/5/2010: 29 #coal #miners died in explosion in #WestVirginia. Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship sentenced to 1 yr in #prison. Massey cited for 515 safety violations; never punished.
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Women strike supporters, singing, wearing camouflage t-shirts.
Today in #LaborHistory 4/5/1989: #UMW #strike against #Pittston Coal after Pittston ended health care for widows, retirees & #disabled #veteran #miners. 40,000 engaged in #wildcat strikes, #civildisobedience, picketing, occupations & #sabotage. >4,000 arrested during the strike.
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Front page of The Black Panther intercommunal news serivce: Top photo: an African American man sits in a wheelchair; another African American man stands behind him; both are smiling. Lower Left image: a young African American man holds a hand-written sign saying, “You Don’t Have to See It to Know.” Lower Right image: A large group of people watch as a protester using a wheelchair exits a building. Caption: Blind demonstrator Dennis Billups (left) and other protesters triumphantly ended their 26-day sit-in at San Francisco’s HEW offices last week. Black Panther Party members Chuck Jackson and Brad Lomax (top, photo) played an integral role in this strategic struggle for human rights.
Today in #LaborHistory 5/5/1977: #Disability rights activists stormed & occupied HEW offices across the US demanding enactment of section 504, which had been weakened to benefit business. In #SanFrancisco activists occupied Fed Building 25 days. #Solidarity by #BlackPanthers, #unions.
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#ICYMI - UCLA IRLE Relaunched Website Documenting Labor History In Los Angeles
The Memory Work Research Initiative has relaunched its website documenting labor history in LA.
Find out more at tinyurl.com/4fpk49xc
#LaborHistory #LosAngeles #LA #California
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LABOR LANDMARK OF THE WEEK
Spirit of Solidarity Monument
Where is it and what is it comemorating? Find out at tinyurl.com/3pfbc8nk
#LaborHistory #Michigan #Sculpture #PublicArt
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Rat Fink, a giant green rat, with crazed, bloodshot eyes and a long, flailing tongue, flies buzzing around his body, with one hand on an oversized stick shift, as he drives a tricked out, undersized hot rod, with flames shoot out the tail pipes.
Today In #LaborHistory 4/4/2001: Ed #BigDaddyRoth died. Southern California #workingclass #KustomKulture. #RatFink cartoon. Beatnik Bandit, Surfite, Orbitron.
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Banner at the 2012 Republican National Convention with an image of Martin Luther King Jr. and his quote: “Today capitalism has outlived its usefulness.” By Liz Mc - Flickr: 'Today capitalism has outlived its usefulness' MLK, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20987101
Today In #LaborHistory 4/4/1968: #MartinLutherKing assassinated in #Memphis, #Tennessee, while there to support sanitation workers #strike after #police killed 16-yr-old protester, who had his hands in the air when he was shot. #workingclass #CivilRights #racism #union #policebrutality #students
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Today In Labor History April 4, 1928: Poet and Civil Rights activist, Maya Angelou, was born on this date. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjtu...
#workingclass #LaborHistory #MayaAngelou #poetry #CivilRights #literature #autobiography
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Cover of Chernyshevsky's "What is to be done?" with protagonist, Vera Rozalsky, in a yellow dress, and two men in the background.
Today In #LaborHistory 4/4/1866: Dmitry Karakozov tried to assassinate Czar Alexander II. Chose 1866 since that was when a character in Chernyshevsky’s “What Is To Be Done?” planned to launch a #revolution. #workingclass #anarchism #novel #fiction #socialism #books #fiction #author #writer
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THIS WEEK’S LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR
The first #union escape room, a labor landmark in Victor, #Colorado, Bette Midler takes on a Woody Guthrie classic and more!
Find out more and listen to the show: tinyurl.com/5haebrc5
@actorsequity.bsky.social @steelworkers.bsky.social #LaborHistory
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1913 black and white photo of striking workers listening to speskers
Today in #LaborHistory: Pietro Botto, socialist mayor of Haledon, N.J., invited the Paterson silk mill strikers to his house where 20,000 heard speakers from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Upton Sinclair, John Reed and others, who urged them to remain strong in their fight - 1913.
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UCLA IRLE Relaunched Website Documenting Labor History In Los Angeles
The Memory Work Research Initiative has relaunched its website documenting labor history in LA.
Find out more at tinyurl.com/4fpk49xc
#LaborHistory #LosAngeles, #LA #California
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Today In #LaborHistory 4/3/1950: Composer #KurtWeill died. Mack the Knife, from #BertoltBrecht Three Penny Opera. #Jewish. Fled #Nazis. Also wrote Alabama Song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orD... #workingClass #antisemitism #holocaust #LotteLenya #socialism #communism
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Jeju inhabitants awaiting execution in late 1948. By Unknown author - http://www.japanfocus.org/-Khiem___Kim_Sung_soo/2848http://www.korea-is-one.org/spip.php?article266https://web.archive.org/web/20110727181314/http://koreanhistoria2005.blogsome.com/images/cheju_13.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11929874
Today In #LaborHistory 4/3/1948: #Cheju #Massacre in Korea to suppress worker #uprising & #GeneralStrike. 30-60,000 #civilians massacred (10-20% of population) by South Korean army, #police & US military. Another 30,000 fled to Japan. #workingclass #communism #Jeju #genocide #korea
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An IWW office after a police raid, 1919
Today In #LaborHistory 4/3/1917: After US declared war, sailors & #police destroyed #IWW #union office in #KansasCity. Similar attacks followed in #Detroit, Duluth and other towns. #workingclass #PoliceBrutality #antiwar #police #wwi #redscare #palmerraids
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Political cartoon of a silk producer who is holding a flag on which is written "To hell with your laws! I'll get Haywood. Elizabeth Flynn, or anyone else who interferes with my profits." By Art Young - The Masses ( Vol. 4, No. 9 ), New York: The Masses Publishing Co., 1913-06https://library.brown.edu/cds/repository2/repoman.php?verb=render&id=1362685292859766&view=pageturner&pageno=15, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75348246
Today In #LaborHistory 4/3/1913: 20,000 workers from #IWW Patterson silk #strike invited to home of socialist mayor to hear socialist speakers. #Strike lasted Feb-July. 5 workers died; >1800 arrested, incl #BigBillHaywood & #ElizabethGurleyFlynn. #workingclass #union #anarchism #socialism
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TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY
British Coal Miners win 7 1/2 hour day, UAW begins the Kohler strike, and King delivers his "I've Been To the Mountaintop" speech
Find out more: tinyurl.com/yzz4a3dp
#LaborHistory @uaw.org @afscme.bsky.social
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Miners and their families getting evicted at gunpoint from company housing during the strike. By Pittsburg Press - Coal Mine and Coke Oven Reclamation and Preservation Project Phase II:Early Coal Mines of Henry Clay FrickWestmoreland Fayette Historical SocietyProject Director: Cassandra Vivian“On the Warpath,” PittsburgPress, April 23, 1891. Scrapbook, April 18 to May 12 1891, Henry Clay Frick Business Records 1862-1987, Helen Clay Frick FoundationArchives, (AIS 2002 06), Henry Clay Frick Business Records, Scrapbook Series, Box 496, Volume 9, p. 41. Archives Service Center,University of Pittsburghhttps://www.westovertonvillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Early-Coal-Mines-of-Henry-Clay-Frick.pdf, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74704449
Today in #LaborHistory 4/3/1891: Natl Guard fired on #immigrants with #UMW #union in Morewood, #Pennsylvania. Killed >10. Protesting #HenryClayFrick, also responsible for #Homestead #massacre following year. #AlexanderBerkman tried to assassinate Frick 1892. #anarchism #strike #mining #coal
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AHA member Matthew Garcia’s research helped spark a New York Times investigation into Cesar Chavez, reshaping public understanding of his legacy.
#laborhistory #humanities #membersmakingnews
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#BlueCollarWriter Labor News Update - April 2, 2026:
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#1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes #ItsBetterInAUnion #LaborHistory #NLRB #Jobs #Economy
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📍 A Victor #Colorado labor landmark
🎶 Bette Midler singing Woody Guthrie
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🔴 Right NOW on The Labor Heritage Power Hour:
🎶 Mike Stout sings about the Women of Steel
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“Different workplaces, same fight.”
From cowboys in 1883 to performers today — organizing continues.
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