Labor History Today

This week's labor history: Saul Schniderman remembers the 1913 strike by Paterson silk workers, which included the arrest of the “Rebel Girl” herself, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Ben Blake’s labor history Object of the Week is a tiny baby shoe from one of the fathers of the American labor movement. And Leon Fink gives us the long view on the Change to Win federation, founded 13 years ago this week. Plus a few versions of Joe Hill’s classic “Rebel Girl.” Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/
This week's music:The Rebel Girl - Janne Lærkedahl: https://youtu.be/G3AC1lI9YTc

This week's labor history: Joe McCartin discusses the 1934 San Francisco Longshoreman's strike -- which spread into a four-day general strike -- and the Great Steel Strike of ‘59; Donna Haverty-Stacke on the Minneapolis truckers strike, and Patrick Dixon on the first documented case in the U.S. of a robot killing a human. For this week’s Labor History Object of the Week, union convention badges, as curator Ben Blake takes another deep dive into the George Meany Labor Archives. Plus: General Strike by D.O.A. Live https://youtu.be/NIeY4yD5-9c and Enough is Enough by Chumbawamba https://youtu.be/G6oq6ZYvFJ4
Joe McCartin is professor of history at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Donna Haverty-Stacke is Professor of History at Hunter College, and the author of “America’s Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism, 1867 – 1960” and the co-editor of “Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756 – 2009.”Patrick Dixson is a research analyst at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.Chris Garlock, Union Cities Coordinator for the Metro Washington AFL-CIO, hosts Union City Radio on WPFW 89.3FM.
Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/
This week's music:General Strike - D.O.A. Live; https://youtu.be/NIeY4yD5-9cEnough is Enough – Chumbawamba; https://youtu.be/G6oq6ZYvFJ4

This week's labor history: Joe McCartin discusses the passage of the National Labor Relations Act and the UN’s International Labor Organization…Labor History Today’s Patrick Dixon talks with Julio Lopez of the Center for Popular Democracy about the 1998 general strike in Puerto Rico …Lane Windham remembers the 1995 merger of the Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union with the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees…Plus, Saul Schniderman on Mother Jones and "The March of the Mill Children"…our History Object of the Week is the 1929 AFL-CIO affiliation ledger…This week’s labor music includes "Plenty Tough & Union Made" by the Waco Brothers, a 1978 version of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union’s “Look for the Union Label” television ad, and “Dump The Bosses Off Your Back” by Anne Feeney.  Joe McCartin is professor of history at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Julio Lopez is with the Center for Popular Democracy.Patrick Dixson is a research analyst at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.Chris Garlock, Union Cities Coordinator for the Metro Washington AFL-CIO, hosts Union City Radio on WPFW 89.3FM.
Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/
This week's music:PLENTY TOUGH & UNION MADEhttps://youtu.be/Au6FS3zGrR8By the Waco Brothers, off their album "To the Last Dead Cowboy," available on Amazon.
Look for the Union Label 1978 ILGWU adhttps://youtu.be/7Lg4gGk53iY
Anne Feeney - Dump The Bosses Off Your Backhttps://youtu.be/1FDtBNwhusUAlbum - Dump The Bosses Off Your BackSupport her by buying an album. http://annefeeney.com/

This week's labor history: Joe McCartin – on the eve of the Supreme Court’s Janus decision -- looks back at two previous important dates in Court history…Labor History Today’s Patrick Dixon talks with Karen Senaga about the 3-month strike by 900 workers in 1990 at Delta Pride Catfish in Indianola, Mississippi…Saul Schniderman remembers the dedication of The Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Chicago…our History Object of the Week is the Black Congressional Caucus Coalition’s 1992 Harold Washington Award for Excellence in coalition-building…This week’s labor music is 8 Hours Work, 8 Hours Sleep, 8 Hours for What We Will by Jonny 8 Track.Joe McCartin is professor of history at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Karen Senaga is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Utah State University. Chris Garlock, Union Cities Coordinator for the Metro Washington AFL-CIO, hosts Union City Radio on WPFW 89.3FM.Patrick Dixson is a research analyst at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/
This week's music: 8 Hours Work, 8 Hours Sleep, 8 Hours for What We Will by Jonny 8 Track.

This week's labor history: Joe McCartin explores efforts by African-American workers to fight discrimination, from A. Philip Randolph’s 1941 push to end discrimination in war industries to a 1943 strike by Detroit auto workers who were attacked by the KKK. PLUS: Elise Bryant on the 1943 strike by African-American tobacco workers against R.J. Reynolds, the jazz opera it inspired, and the connection between labor history and labor arts, and sociologist Chris Rhomberg discusses the origins of the 1995 Detroit newspaper strike. Bryant and Rhomberg speak with LHT’s Patrick Dixon. And Saul Schniderman on Mother Jones’ rally in Philadelphia to focus public attention on children mutilated in the state's textile mills. LHT’s History Object of the Week is a sculpture of A. Philip Randolph, part of the exhibit “For Liberty, Justice, And Equality: Unions Making History In America” at the George Meany Labor Archives at the University of Maryland College Park campus. This week’s labor music is Shower of Roses, by Steve Jones, from “Love Songs from the Liberation Wars.”Joe McCartin is professor of history at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Chris Garlock, Union Cities Coordinator for the Metro Washington AFL-CIO, hosts Union City Radio on WPFW 89.3FM.Elise Bryant is Executive Director of the Labor Heritage Foundation, and directed “Love Songs from the Liberation Wars,” the labor jazz opera based on the 1943 strike by African-American tobacco workers against R.J. Reynolds. Chris Rhomberg is Associate Professor of Sociology at Fordham University and the author of The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the Fate of American Labor (2012).Patrick Dixson is a research analyst at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/
This week's music:Shower of Roses, by Steve Jones, from “Love Songs from the Liberation Wars.”

This week's labor history: Joe McCartin, Ben Blake and Julie Greene discuss Eugene Debs, railroad union leader and socialist. He founded the American Railway Union on June 13, 1893, and on June 16, 1918, Debs spoke out on the relationship between capitalism and war; 10 days later he was arrested and eventually sentenced to 10 years in jail. PLUS: Patrick Dixon interviews Mark Dudzic on the founding of the Labor Party in the U.S. and this week’s Labor History Object of the Week is an AFL-CIO letter boycotting Nazi Germany, part of the exhibit “For Liberty, Justice, And Equality: Unions Making History In America” at the George Meany Labor Archives at the University of Maryland College Park campus. This week’s labor music is “Uncle Sam Goddamn” by Brother Ali.  Joe McCartin is professor of history at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Julie Greene is a historian of United States labor, immigration, and empire; she teaches at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin Press, 2009).Ben Blake works at the University of Maryland, where he’s a labor archivist at the George Meany Labor Archives. Chris Garlock, Union Cities Coordinator for the Metro Washington AFL-CIO, hosts Union City Radio on WPFW 89.3FM.
Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/
This week's music:Brother Ali - Uncle Sam Goddamnhttps://youtu.be/46l236O7Iv8

This week's labor history: Joe McCartin, Ben Blake and Julie Greene discuss the earliest recorded strike by Chinese immigrants to the U.S. when stonemasons struck for higher pay in San Francisco in 1852. Plus Patrick Dixon on the 1937 “Labor Holiday” general strike in Lansing, MI, Saul Schniderman on the Pageant of the Paterson Strike and this week’s Labor History Object of the Week, a Coors boycott button, part of the exhibit “For Liberty, Justice, And Equality: Unions Making History In America” at the George Meany Labor Archives at the University of Maryland College Park campus. This week’s labor music is “You Can't Giddy Up By Sayin' Whoa” from Joe Uehlein and The U-Liners. Joe McCartin is professor of history at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Julie Greene is a historian of United States labor, immigration, and empire; she teaches at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin Press, 2009).Ben Blake works at the University of Maryland, where he’s a labor archivist at the George Meany Labor Archives. Chris Garlock, Union Cities Coordinator for the Metro Washington AFL-CIO, hosts Union City Radio on WPFW 89.3FM.
Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/
This week's music:You Can't Giddy Up By Sayin' Whoahttps://youtu.be/OHC-Ri7W1u0

This week's labor history: Joe McCartin, Ben Blake and Julie Greene remember the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, when police opened fire on striking steelworkers at Republic Steel in South Chicago, killing ten and wounding more than 160. Patrick Dixon interviews Tom Sito on the 1941 strike by animators against Walt Disney. Sito, a well-known American animator (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Lion King, Shrek and many more), animation historian and teacher, is the author of “Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson.”And in this week’s Labor History Object of the Week we take a look at a United Farm Worker banner commemorating the 1965 strike against grape growers in California. The banner is part of the exhibit “For Liberty, Justice, And Equality: Unions Making History In America” at the George Meany Labor Archives at the University of Maryland College Park campus. Plus we’ve got music by Joe Glazer, the Eureka's, Willie Sordill and Joan Baez. Union City Radio's Chris Garlock hosts.Joe McCartin is professor of history at Georgetown University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Julie Greene is a historian of United States labor, immigration, and empire; she teaches at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin Press, 2009).Ben Blake…Chris Garlock, Union Cities Coordinator for the Metro Washington AFL-CIO, hosts Union City Radio on WPFW 89.3FM.
Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/
This week's music:Memorial Day Massacre - Joe Glazerhttps://youtu.be/S6KsMlgCokI2006 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1975 Collector Records
Union Thru and Thru -- the Eureka'shttps://youtu.be/8P38VM7IwCIRob Mitchell and Ken Walther (c) Walther MusicTalking U.F.W. · Willie Sordillhttps://youtu.be/pPeLWc2-O0kWhat Now People?, Vol. 2℗ 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1977 Paredon RecordsNo nos moveran - JOAN BAEZ https://youtu.be/DYXV0XqqEdM