TODAY IN LABOR HISTORY! January 25 Sojourner Truth addresses - TopicsExpress



          

TODAY IN LABOR HISTORY! January 25 Sojourner Truth addresses first Black Women’s Rights convention - 1851 The Sheet Metal Workers Intl Association (SMWIA) is founded in Toledo, Ohio, as the Tin, Sheet Iron and Cornice Workers’ Int’l Association - 1888 Two hundred miners are killed in a horrific explosion at the Harwick mine in Cheswick, Pa., Allegheny County. Many of the dead lie entombed in the sealed mine to this day - 1904 The Supreme Court upholds “Yellow Dog” employment contracts, which forbid membership in labor unions. Yellow Dog contracts remained legal until 1932 - 1915 Some 16,000 textile workers strike in Passaic, N.J. - 1926 The federal minimum wage rate rises to 75 cents an hour - 1950
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