IBEW Local Union #347 Posts - TopicsExpress

January 04 Angered by increasing farm foreclosures, members of
January 04 Angered by increasing farm foreclosures, members of Iowas Farmers Holiday Association threaten to lynch banking representatives and law off...

December 30 Gathering in the back room of Behrens’ cigar shop
December 30 Gathering in the back room of Behrens’ cigar shop in Sedalia, Mo., 33 railroad clerks form Local Lodge Number 1 of a union they named th...

December 21 Powered by children seven to 12 years old working
December 21 Powered by children seven to 12 years old working dawn to dusk, Samuel Slater’s thread-spinning factory goes into production in Pawtucke...

December 19 An explosion in the Darr Mine in Westmoreland Co.,
December 19 An explosion in the Darr Mine in Westmoreland Co., Pa., kills 239 coal miners. Seventy-one of the dead share a common grave in Olive Branc...

December 03 Textile strikers win 10-hour day, Fall River, Mass. -
December 03 Textile strikers win 10-hour day, Fall River, Mass. - 1866 The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passes an ordinance setting an 8-hour w...

October 29 Japanese immigrant and labor advocate Katsu Goto is
October 29 Japanese immigrant and labor advocate Katsu Goto is strangled to death, his body then strung from an electric pole, on the Big Island of Ha...

September 01 The Int’l Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship
September 01 The Int’l Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers is founded at a meeting in Chicago, the pro...