Today in labor history. July 21 Local militiamen are called out against striking railroad workers in Pittsburgh. The head of the Pennsylvania Railroad advises giving the strikers a rifle diet for a few days and see how they like that kind of bread. - 1877 Compressed air explosion kills 20 workers constructing railroad tunnel under the Hudson River - 1880 IWW leads a strike at Hodgemans Blueberry Farm in Grand Junction, Mich. - 1964 Radio station WCFL, owned and operated by the Chicago Federation of Labor, takes to the airwaves with two hours of music. The first and only labor-owned radio station in the country, WCFL was sold in 1979 - 1926 A die-cast operator in Jackson, Mich., is pinned by a hydraulic Unimate robot, dies five days later. Incident is the first documented case in the U.S. of a robot killing a human - 1984 From unionist July 21, 1877 – 30,000 Chicago workers rallied on Market Street during the Great Upheaval wave of strikes occurring throughout the country. Future anarchist and Haymarket martyr Albert Parsons spoke to the crowd, advocating the use of the ballot to obtain state control of the means of production, and urged workers to join the workingmens party. Parsons was later abducted by armed men who took him to the police where he was interrogated and informed that he had caused the city great trouble. (From the Daily Bleed) From modeducation.blogspot/2012/07/today-in-labor-historyjuly-21.html?m=1 1) WCFL 2) Albert Parsons
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