Today in Labor History July 15 leader of the Share Croppers Union, is murdered in Cap Hill, Alabama

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July 15

July 15, 1917 - Some 50,000 lumberjacks went on strike, demanding an eight-hour workday.

Robert Gray, an African-American sharecropper and leader of the Share Croppers Union, is murdered in Cap Hill, Alabama - 1931

A half-million steelworkers begin what is to become a 116-day strike that shutters nearly every steel mill in the country. Management wanted to dump contract language limiting its ability to change the number of workers assigned to a task or to introduce new work rules or machinery that would result in reduced hours or fewer employees - 1959

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_07_15_2009