TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY
The Lochner era begins
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![Garcia Marquez in 2002, with graying hair and moustache, and wire rimmed glasses. By Jose Lara - Flickr: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (on malvenko.net: [1]), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19150435](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:55mxt4inqycnsmkaebqk6mo6/bafkreigeaibxgdq6uvouvseqhdq2wbbzzeal5vfnk5o6d6ifgfeubagq2e)
Garcia Marquez in 2002, with graying hair and moustache, and wire rimmed glasses. By Jose Lara - Flickr: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (on malvenko.net: [1]), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19150435
Today in #LaborHistory 4/17/2014: #GabrielGarciaMarquez died. #NobelPrize in #Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). #Socialism, critic of US #imperialism in Latin America. #workingclass #author #writer #fiction #books
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MST March, with peasants carrying scythes and machetes, fists in the air. Photo by Sebastião Salgado.
Today in Labor History April 17, 1996: Brazilian police attacked 2,000 landless peasants, killing 19 and wounding 69. Over 1,000 would be killed in similar protests throughout the 1990s.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #peasant #massacre #brazil #police #policebrutality #policemurder
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The victims of the Lena massacre, scattered on the ground. By Unknown author - Transferred from ru.wikipedia to Commons by Innv., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7037658
Today in #LaborHistory 4/17/1912: #Miners struck at #Lena gold fields in eastern #Siberia against long hours, poor working conditions, starvation #wages. #Strike leaders were arrested. Troops shot & killed >200. Led to strike wave across the country. #workingclass #russia #massacre #mining #gold
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#BlueCollarWriter Labor News Update - April 16, 2026:
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#1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes #ItsBetterInAUnion #LaborHistory #NLRB #Jobs #Economy
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🔴 LIVE NOW on The Labor Heritage Power Hour:
Labor History in 2 ✊ Jackie Robinson & the fight to end Jim Crow baseball
Listen live at bit.ly/3P0fK8w or WPFW 89.3 FM in #WashingtonDC
#laborhistory #Baseball #BreakingBarriers
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Next up on The Labor Heritage Power Hour:
The story of The Seattle Union Record 📰 a paper built for working people
Listen live at bit.ly/3P0fK8w or WPFW 89.3 FM in #WashingtonDC
#laborhistory #Seattle #WashingtonState
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Coming up at 1:00 PM Eastern on The Labor Heritage Power Hour:
DC Labor FilmFest opens on May Day 🎬 plus labor news, tech & work, and #LaborHistory
Listen live at bit.ly/3P0fK8w or @wpfw 89.3 FM in #WashingtonDC
#1u #Film #Movies
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First-edition dust jacket cover of Invisible Man (1952) by the American author Ralph Ellison. By Dust jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. Published by Random House. - Scan via Heritage Auctions. Cropped from the original image., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91795404
Today in #LaborHistory 4/16/1994: #RalphEllison died. #HarlemRenaissance, #author. Quit Communist Party during #WWII b/c they became too reformist. Wrote Invisible Man as a response to their betrayal. #workingclass #Harlem #marxism #racism #communism #fiction #literature #books #writer
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Parking lot 1⁄4 mile (400 m) away from the explosion, filled with damaged cars. By University of Houston Digital Library - University of Houston Digital Library, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11834231
Today in #LaborHistory 4/16/1947: 581 workers died in Texas City, #Texas, #Galveston Bay. Deadliest industrial #disaster in US history. 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate set off chain reaction of explosions & fires on other ships and nearby oil storage facilities. Thousands seriously injured.
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Sheet of LSD, with 25 hits, with image of dreamlike person on a bicycle, with a snowcapped mountain in the background, and a sun in a red sky in the upper righthand corner, and a moon in a blue sky in the lefthand corner. Reads 1943 at the bottom.
Today in #LaborHistory 4/16/1943: Albert Hoffman discovered #hallucinogenic effects of #LSD. And forever after, #workingclass people could afford to take inexpensive trips without ever leaving their homes. Hoffman also named & synthesized #psilocybin.
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TODAY at 10:00 AM Eastern online:
The US Working Class On and Off Screen
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#Film #Movies #LaborHistory #puertorican #women
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#BlueCollarWriter Labor News Update - April 15, 2026:
www.bluecollarwriter.com/home/labor-n...
#1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes #ItsBetterInAUnion #LaborHistory #NLRB #Jobs #Economy
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TOMORROW at 10:00 AM Eastern online:
The US Working Class On and Off Screen
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#Film #Movies #LaborHistory #puertorican #women
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#Peoples250: Alex Finley shares the story of Professor Virginia Snow who secured representation for Joe Hill in his trial in 1914. #america250 #laborhistory #joehill
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Culture and History Combine for UK General Strike Anniversary
Cultural events and historical reflection will mark the centenary of the United Kingdom’s 1926 General Strike in Tyneside.
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#LaborHistory #GeneralStrike100
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Check out my newest piece for @newyorkalmanack.bsky.social
#Strikes #Utica #BusDrivers #LaborHistory
www.newyorkalmanack.com/2026/04/1950...
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Commemorative feature about the Titanic orchestra. From left to right, top to bottom: Krins, Hartley, Bricoux, Brailey, Taylor, Woodward, Clarke, and Hume. By Unknown author - Published in 1912 by the Amalgated Musicians Union, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15312507
Today in #LaborHistory 4/15/1912: 8 members of Musicians #union died when #Titanic sank. They played their instruments until nearly the end. Played “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” the as the ship went down. 5 weeks later, union organized a benefit concert for musicians’ families.
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Today in #LaborHistory 4/15/1920: Two men robbed & killed Frederick Parmenter & Alessandro Berardelli in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Stole $15,776.51. #SaccoandVanzetti were falsely convicted & sentenced to death. #anarchism #deathpenalty www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNKP...
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Today in Labor History April 15, 1998: Cambodian dictator Pol Pot died on this day. Under his rule, the Khmer Rouge committed genocide, killing 2-3 million Cambodians, or 25% of the population. youtu.be/U4reO3LabZY
#workingclass #LaborHistory #genocide #cambodia #polpot #killingfields #KhmerRouge
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If there are any podcasts related to local, labor, or socialist history in the US looking for a guest/topic, I'd be happy to come on and discuss the Little Falls Textile Strike.
#LaborHistory #LocalHistory #Podcast #IndieAuthor
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#BlueCollarWriter Labor News Update - April 14, 2026:
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#1u #UnionStrong #UnionYes #ItsBetterInAUnion #LaborHistory #NLRB #Jobs #Economy
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The children yearn for the mine...wars coverage! That's right folks, another installment in our coverage of the West Virginia Mine Wars is ready for your ears and today we're talking about the Matewan Massacre, listen wherever you get your pods! 🎙️ #laborhistory #minewars #podcast #solidarityforever
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Map Your Labor History This May
#LaborHistoryMonth begins May 1. Now is the perfect time to remind your fellow #union members that #LaborHistory happened in communities large and small across the United States, including yours.
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#History #RoadTrip
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The "Black Sunday" dust storm approaches Spearman in northern Texas, April 14, 1935. Looks like a 100-foot tsunami of dust rolling through town. By Monthly Weather Review, Volume 63, April 1935, p. 148. - https://photolib.noaa.gov/Collections/National-Weather-Service/Meteorological-Monsters/Dust/emodule/647/eitem/3025(original upload: http://gimp-savvy.com/cgi-bin/img.cgi?noabU7tT7yk5VKc5780, a no longer working link)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8017282
Today in #LaborHistory 4/14/1935: #BlackSunday dust storm swept across #Oklahoma & #Texas. 1 of worst storms of #DustBowl. 4 yrs later, on this date, #JohnSteinbeck published his #workingclass #novel, Grapes of Wrath, about Dust Bowl #refugees in California. #fiction #books #author #writer
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Money printed by the Limerick Soviet. It reads: “General Strike Against British Militarism. The workers of Limerick promise to pay the bearer 1 shilling.” By Limerick Soviet - http://www.irishpapermoney.com/ancillary/ancil/ancil03.htmlTransferred from en.wikipedia; transferred to Commons by User:Innotata using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15704166
Today in #LaborHistory 4/14/1919: Workers in Limerick, #Ireland launched #GeneralStrike against #British military #occupation. Ran city as a #soviet for 2 weeks. Printed their own newspaper & currency. Regulated food supplies to keep prices low & prevent profiteering. #workingclass #socialism
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📣 Seminar this week!
@aimloiselle.bsky.social on Norma Rae (1979) & the invisibilization of Puerto Rican women workers
📅 April 16 (4–5:30 PM, Paris)
📍 Paris Cité / online
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#FilmStudies #GenderStudies #PuertoRicanStudies #LaborHistory #Intersectionality
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TODAY’S LABOR HISTORY
Debs is jailed, and the founding of the Laborer's union
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#LaborHistory @weareliuna.bsky.social #LiUNA123 #FeelThePower
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It was such a pleasure to talk with Lantz and Victoria about their play The Last Words of Joe Hill and what the voices from #LaborHistory can tell workers today!
#LaborRadioPod
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Memorial in Sabra, South Beirut. Has wreaths over a marble slab. Sign in back has writing in English and Arabic. English writing reads: Sabra and Shatila Massacre. 1982. Has a bloody red hand and 3 photos of the massacre. By Bertramz - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8262559
Today in #LaborHistory 4/13/1975: #Lebanon #CivilWar began. 120,000 died. 1 million fled. Phalangists & #IsraeliDefenseForces slaughtered 3,500 #civilians #SabraAndShatila #massacre. Kahan Commission found #Israel Defense Minister Ariel Sharon responsible. Sharon became Prime Minister.
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