Today in Labor History May 22 The “Battle of Deputies Run” took place in Minneapolis killing two mor

May 22

Eugene V. Debs imprisoned in Woodstock, Ill. for role in Pullman strike - 1895 (for more on Debs, check out The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene V. Debs in the UCS bookstore)

White firemen on the Georgia Railroad strike against the hiring of blacks. A New York Times correspondent reports that there is much violence against the black firemen, but it is coming from "citizens along the line of the road, who object to the preference given negroes over white men." - 1909

Civil Service Retirement Act of 1920 gives federal workers a pension - 1920


May 22, 1934 - The “Battle of Deputies Run” took place in Minneapolis, as strikers routed police and a Citizen’s Alliance mob, killing two people. It was one episode in the milestone Minneapolis Teamster truckers strike of 1934.

For more on the strike, go to www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/81truckersstrike.html

Also, visit the Minneapolis Labor Review archive at www.minneapolisunions.org

The Congress of Industrial Organizations’ (CIO’s) Steel Workers Organizing Committee is disbanded at a Cleveland convention and immediately succeeded by the workers’ new union, the United Steel Workers of America - 1942

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_05_22_2011