Today in labor history May 25 Unemployed WWI veterans demand a bonus they had been promised

[Omaha Steve]

May 25


May 25, 1886 - Philip Murray was born in Blantyre, Scotland. He was the founding president of the United Steelworkers of America and head of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1940 until his death in 1952. Read more about Murray at http://www.explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=799
Two company houses occupied by non-union coal miners were blown up and destroyed during a strike against the Glendale Gas & Coal Co. in Wheeling, W. Va. – 1925

Thousands of unemployed WWI veterans arrive in Washington, D.C. to demand a bonus they had been promised but never received. They built a shantytown near the U.S. Capitol but were burned out by U.S. troops after two months - 1932

Labor history found here: http://www.biglabor.com/history.php & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_05_25_2009