January 25, 1926

[Omaha Steve]

http://nhlabornews.com/2014/01/january-25-1926/




Textile workers in mills in and around Passaic, New Jersey, go on strike over wages, hours, and working conditions. The strike ended on March 1 of the following year after the final mill being picketed signed a contract with the striking workers.

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.

[Major Nikon]

1. An untold amount of workers got their heads bashed in by cops and company thugs

Undoubtedly many died, but nobody kept track of such things.

Unions built the middle class in this country through blood and guts during a time when wealth distribution was shaped like an L. Even now as we migrate from a triangle back to the L shape, Republicans have managed to paint the destroyers of the middle class as heroes of "job creation" and unions as the villians even as the reality is completely the opposite.

[WinkyDink]

2. Back in the day (mid- to late-60's) my h.s. taught us Labor history in "Problems of Democracy."

I grew up near Bethlehem Steel and was born a coal miner's daughter in Molly Maguire country. I became an NEA member.

UNIONS FOREVER!!