Today in Labor History Aug 19 Strikebreakers attacked and beat picketing strikers police watched

August 19


First edition of IWW "Little Red Song Book" (pictured above) published - 1909

And this:

August 19, 1909 - The Industrial Workers of the World – “Wobblies” – issued the first edition of their "Little Red Song Book." Learn more about the Wobblies and the songbook at www.iww.org

August 19, 1916 - Strikebreakers hired by Everett Mills owner Neil Jamison attacked and beat picketing strikers in Everett, Washington. Local police watched and refused to intervene, claiming that the waterfront where the attack took place was federal land and therefore outside their jurisdiction.

Some 2,000 United Railroads streetcar service workers and supporters parade down San Francisco’s Market Street in support of pay demands and against the company’s anti-union policies. The strike failed in late November in the face of more than 1,000 strikebreakers, some of them imported from Chicago - 1917

Founding of the Maritime Trades Dept. of the AFL-CIO, to give "workers employed in the maritime industry and its allied trades a voice in shaping national policy" - 1946

Phelps-Dodge copper miners in Morenci and Clifton Ariz. are confronted by tanks, helicopters, 426 state troopers and 325 National Guardsmen brought in to walk strikebreakers through picketlines in what was to become a failed three-year fight by the Steelworkers and other unions - 1983

Some 4,400 mechanics, cleaners and custodians, members of AMFA at Northwest Airlines, strike the carrier over job security, pay cuts and workrule changes. The 14-month strike was to fail, with most union jobs lost to replacements and outside contractors - 2005

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_08_19_2010

It's good to remember how much workers suffered in the past so we can have the rights we have today.

I always like your historic labor posts, Omaha Steve. You're a DU gem!

We forget our own history too often.

But it seems to have turned out ok. I enjoy making these kinds of posts.

OS