Today in Labor History Sept 5 10,000 angry textile strikers besiege a factory in Fall River, Ma.

[Omaha Steve]

September 5

20,000 to 30,000 marchers participate in New York's first Labor Day parade, demanding the eight-hour day - 1882


"Palmer raids" on all IWW halls and offices in 48 cities in U.S. Alexander Palmer, U.S. Attorney General, was rounding up radicals and leftists - 1917

Ten thousand angry textile strikers, fighting for better wages and working conditions, besiege a factory in Fall River, Mass., where 300 strikebreakers are working. The scabs are rescued by police using tear gas and pistols on the strikers - 1934

General strike begins across U.S. maritime industry, stopping all shipping. The strikers were objecting to the government's post-war National Wage Stabilization Board order that reduced pay increases negotiated by maritime unions - 1946

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