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July 1, 2010
http://nhlabornews.com/2014/07/july-1-2010/
After six years of organizing by domestic workers, the New York state legislature passes the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, providing them with labor protections such as vacation and overtime pay, protection from discrimination and harassment, and inclusion of part-time workers in disability laws.
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About Today In Labor History
The NHLN has joined with multiple other websites to help highlight some of the struggles that workers have faced throughout our history. We want everyone to know what the workers of the past had to endure for the rights we take for granted now. If you do not learn from the past, you are doomed to repeat it.
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July 1, 1934. Two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winner General Smedley Darlington Butler ("The Fighting Quaker"
told Massachusetts Representative John McCormack, Chairman of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities (commonly known as the McCormack-Dickstein Committee) that Gerald C. MacGuire, a Wall Street bond salesman, and Bill Doyle, the department commander of the American Legion in Massachusetts, tried to recruit him to lead a coup against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Butler claimed that the conspirators promised him $30 million in financial backing and the support of most of the media.
told Massachusetts Representative John McCormack, Chairman of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities (commonly known as the McCormack-Dickstein Committee) that Gerald C. MacGuire, a Wall Street bond salesman, and Bill Doyle, the department commander of the American Legion in Massachusetts, tried to recruit him to lead a coup against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Butler claimed that the conspirators promised him $30 million in financial backing and the support of most of the media.
