Labor History Aug 19 confronted by tanks, helicopters, 426 state troopers and 325 National Guardsmen

[Omaha Steve]

August 19


First edition of IWW "Little Red Song Book" published - 1909

And this: August 19, 1909 - The Industrial Workers of the World – “Wobblies” – issued the first edition of their "Little Red Song Book." Learn more about the Wobblies and the songbook at www.iww.org

August 19, 1916 - Strikebreakers hired by Everett Mills owner Neil Jamison attacked and beat picketing strikers in Everett, Washington. Local police watched and refused to intervene, claiming that the waterfront where the attack took place was federal land and therefore outside their jurisdiction.

Some 2,000 United Railroads streetcar service workers and supporters parade down San Francisco’s Market Street in support of pay demands and against the company’s anti-union policies. The strike failed in late November in the face of more than 1,000 strikebreakers, some of them imported from Chicago - 1917

Founding of the Maritime Trades Dept. of the AFL-CIO, to give "workers employed in the maritime industry and its allied trades a voice in shaping national policy" - 1946


Phelps-Dodge copper miners in Morenci and Clifton Ariz. are confronted by tanks, helicopters, 426 state troopers and 325 National Guardsmen brought in to walk strikebreakers through picketlines in what was to become a failed three-year fight by the Steelworkers and other unions - 1983 (The Unfinished Struggle is a tight, entertaining history of the American labor movement. Steve Babson’s sympathetic, dramatic narrative examines workers’ attempts to organize for fairness and justice, beginning with the Great Uprising railroad strike of 1877, through the founding of the American Federation of Labor, the hugely successful sitdown strikes of the 1930s and on into the 1990s. He illuminates the American labor movement’s tumultuous past, evolving agenda, and continuing conflicts. Timely reading as 45,000 CWA and IBEW members are on strike against Verizon.)

Some 4,400 mechanics, cleaners and custodians, members of AMFA at Northwest Airlines, strike the carrier over job security, pay cuts and workrule changes. The 14-month strike was to fail, with most union jobs lost to replacements and outside contractors - 2005

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/big-labor/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_08_19_2011

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1. 5th rec - IWW always gets a rec!