Today in Labor History Dec 11 More than 500 people were massacred U.S.-supported regime

[Omaha Steve]

December 11

December 11, 1981 - More than 500 people were massacred by units of the El Salvadoran military in the village of El Mozote. After being locked in their homes overnight, men, women and children were tortured and systematically executed. Eyewitness accounts led to an international investigation and, in 1992, exhumation of the remains. The El Mozote massacre was one of many attacks on peasants, workers and activists under U.S.-supported regimes in Central America during the Cold War.

Ten days after an Illinois State mine inspector approved coal dust removal techniques at New Orient mine in West Frankfort, the mine exploded, largely because of coal dust accumulations, killing 119 workers - 1951

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_12_11_2009