Today in labor history June 01 bringing wages for a nine-hour day to $2.50 & more info

[Omaha Steve]

June 01

The Ladies Federal Labor Union Number 2703, based in Illinois, was granted a charter from the American Federation of Labor. Women from a wide range of occupations were among the members, who ultimately were successful in coalescing women’s groups interested in suffrage, temperance, health, housing, and child labor reform to win state legislation in these areas - 1888

Union Carpenters win a 25-cents-per-day raise, bringing wages for a nine-hour day to $2.50 - 1898

3,500 immigrant miners begin Clifton-Morenci, Ariz. copper strike – 1903

As many as 60,000 railroad shopmen strike to protest cuts in wages – 1922

June 1, 1942 - The Polish Socialist newspaper, Liberty Brigade, made public for the first time the news that Nazi Germany was gassing Jews by the thousands. It printed an interview with a young Jew, Emanuel Ringelblum, who had escaped the Chelmno death camp.

Dakota Beef meatpackers win 7-hour sit-down strike over speed-ups, St. Paul, Minn. – 2000



June 1 marks the day, under U.S. labor law, that children under age 16 can work later in the day. From June 1 through Labor Day, young people between the ages of 14 and 16 may work up to 8 hours a day between the hours of 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

For more on child labor regulations, visit the University of Iowa's Child Labor Public Education Project, http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/

[napi21]

1. Yep! When I got my first job the min wage was $1.55, and had

recently been increased to that! And at $3,200 a YEAR, I STILL had to pay income taxes in April!