The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America. -John F. Kennedy Todays Labor History: August 31: Scheduled to speak to the unemployed, Emma Goldman is arrested in Philadelphia on NY warrants charging her with incitement to riot for her August 21 speech. -1839 John Reed forms the Communist Labor Party in Chicago. The Party’s motto: Workers of the world, unite! -1919 Some 10,000 striking miners began a fight at Blair Mountain, W.Va., for recognition of their Union, the United Mine Workers of America. Federal troops were sent in and miners were forced to withdraw five days later, after 16 deaths -1921 The Trade Union Unity League is founded as an alternative to the American Federation of Labor, with the goal of organizing along industrial rather than craft lines. The League led a protest of nearly a million jobless workers in a dozen cities to demand relief and unemployment insurance, it claimed 125,000 members before it dissolved in the late 1930s -1929 Italian American labor organizer, Giovanni Pippan was murdered during his campaign to organize the Italian bread wagon drivers of Chicago -1933 Nearly all 430 workers at the California Sanitary Canning Company participated in a massive walkout. The majority of the workers were Mexican-American women. They were demand Union recognition for their affiliation with the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, & Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA). They eventually won a Union contract and wage increase -1939 Solidarity workers movement founded as a strike coordination committee at Lenin Shipyards, Gdansk, Poland. The strike launched a wave of unrest in the Soviet Union that ultimately led to its dissolution in 1991. The Unions beat tyranny and ended communist rule in Poland. -1980 An estimated 325,000 Unionists gathered in Washington, D.C., for a Solidarity Day march and rally for workplace fairness and healthcare reform -1991 Detroit teachers begin what is to become a 9-day strike, winning smaller class sizes and raises of up to 4 percent -1999
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