Today in Labor History Sept 5 "Palmer raids" on all IWW halls and offices in 48 cities in U.S.

[Omaha Steve]

September 5

20,000 to 30,000 marchers participate in New York's first Labor Day parade, demanding the eight-hour day. Carpenter Peter McGuire was a prime mover behind the event, which took place in New York City. - 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

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_09_05_2009

[Captain Hilts]

1. To get even, someone tried to blow up Palmer and nearly got Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt instead.

They lived across the street, on, appropriately enough - 'R' St. just west of Dupont Circle.

[Laelth]

2. k&r for labor and its history. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth