Today in labor histoy October 03

[Omaha Steve]

October 03

The state militia is called in after 164 high school students in Kincaid, Ill. go on strike when the school board buys coal from the scab Peabody Coal Co. - 1932

The Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America is founded in Camden, N.J., on this day in 1933. It eventually merged with the International Association of Machinists, in 1988 - 1933

Seven-state Greyhound bus strike - 1945

The United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) was formed on this day in 1943 as a self-governing union, an outgrowth of the CIO’s Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee. UPWA merged with the Meatcutters union in 1968, which in turn merged with the Retail Clerks in 1979, forming the United Food and Commerical Workers (UFCW) - 1943

Folk singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie ("This Land is Your Land”, “Union Maid” and hundreds of others) dies in New York at the age of 55 of Huntington’s disease - 1967