Today in labor history Apr 20 using machine guns and fire, kill about 20 people—including 11 childre

[Omaha Steve]

April 20

10,000 demonstrators celebrate textile workers’ win of a 10-percent pay hike and grievance committees after a one-month strike, Lowell, Mass. - 1912


April 20, 1914 - John D. Rockefeller’s Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. brought in state militia and company gunmen to break a strike by 10,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America. They fired machine guns and set fire to a tent colony of strikers and their families. Fourteen women and children were killed in what is remembered as the Ludlow Massacre.

For more information on Ludlow, go to http://www.umwa.org/history/ludlow.shtml and http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5737/


April 20, 1948 - United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther was shot and seriously wounded by would-be assassins. The charismatic labor leader died in a plane crash in 1970.

For more on the life of Walter Reuther, see http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5737/

National Association of Post Office Mail Handlers, Watchmen, Messengers & Group Leaders merge with Laborers - 1968


History found here: http://www.biglabor.com/history.php & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_04_20_2009

[get the red out]

1. This is the Republican ideal

This is a Republican wet dream of labor relations.

[dcsmart]

2. people in this country forgot that workers died

for the labor rights and laws we enjoy now. keep the history coming. i wish they all could make the greatest list

K & R