July 4, 1950

[Omaha Steve]

http://nhlabornews.com/2013/07/july-4-1950/

The Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention – one of eight conventions adopted by the International Labour Organization (ILO) that form the core of international labor law – goes into effect. As of 2013, 152 out of 183 ILO member states have ratified the convention; the United States has yet to ratify this convention.




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.

[think]

1. "the United States has yet to ratify this convention"

[liberal_at_heart]

2. K&R

[freshwest]

3. Good example for anyone who claims labor has too much power.

[MisterP]

4. that illo's from The Masses, nu?

[Iliyah]

5. When you physically

take the rights of workers and then claim its the Unions, who is the fool?

[jtuck004]

6. I thought that cartoon looked incongruous with the message in the OP. Found out

it was done by an IWW member named Jon Lynch, about 1925. I suspect Mr. Lynch would have been highly dissatisfied to see his work used in this way. The treaty is about getting permission from the bosses to do things a person would ordinarily do if the bosses didn't interfere. Shouldn't have to petition for a right held to be inalienable. It sounds too much like getting the permission of a Master. Maybe it's taking so long because not enough is being demanded.

Learn from the past, indeed.

[byeya]

10. Excellent research! If it's deemed not to be a right, then it's merely privilege extended and

subject to cancellation at the whim of monopolistic capital or highly placed commisars.
I agree, the IWW would object to the cartoon being used in this context.

[Egalitarian Thug]

7. K&R If only... n/t

[Sherman A1]

8. K&R

[Omaha Steve]

9. Kick