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Today in labor history for the week of June 24, 2013 (17 workers are killed and much more)
http://nhlabornews.com/2013/06/today-in-labor-history-for-the-week-of-june-24-2013/
Today in labor history for the week of June 24, 2013
June 24
Birth of Agnes Nestor, president of the Int’l Glove Workers Union and longtime leader of the Chicago Women’s Trade Union League. She began work in a glove factory at age 14 – 1880
Seventeen workers are killed as methane explodes in a water tunnel under construction in Sylmar, Calif. – 1971
June 25
More than 8,000 people attend the dedication ceremony for The Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Chicago, honoring those framed and executed for the bombing at Haymarket Square on May 4, 1886 – 1893
Fair Labor Standards Act passes Congress, banning child labor and setting the 40-hour work week – 1938
At the urging of black labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph, Franklin Roosevelt issues an executive order barring discrimination in defense industries – 1941
Congress passes the Smith-Connally War Labor Disputes Act over President Franklin Roosevelt’s veto. It allows the federal government to seize and operate industries threatened by strikes that would interfere with war production. It was hurriedly created after the third coal strike in seven weeks – 1943
FULL story at link.
