Omaha Steve
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Sun Jul-08-07 07:00 PM
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July 08 First anthracite coal strike in U.S. - 1842
Labor organizer Ella Reeve “Mother” Bloor born on Staten Island, NY. Among her activities: investigating child labor in glass factories and mines, and working undercover in meat packing plants to verify for federal investigators the nightmarish working conditions that author Upton Sinclair had revealed in “The Jungle” - 1862
Founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W., or Wobblies) concludes in Chicago. Charles O. Sherman, a former American Federation of Labor organizer, is elected president - 1905
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Sun Jul-08-07 07:11 PM
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An injury to one is an injury to all
ONE BIG UNION...they said it 100 years ago and were undermined by the more business oriented unions of the day.
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Sun Jul-08-07 07:21 PM
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2. Sad that we're pissing all of this away slowly but surely...n/t |
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