Today in Labor History Sept 9, 16 striking Filipino workers on the Hawiian island killed by police

[Omaha Steve]

September 9

In convention at Topeka, Kansas, delegates create the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America. The men who repaired the nation's rail cars were paid 10 or 15 cents an hour, working 12 hours a day, often seven days a week - 1890

September 9, 1919 - During a wave of strikes that swept the country that year, Boston police walked off the job. The police had affiliated their local organization with the American Federation of Labor, prompting the police commissioner to suspend 19 policemen. The officers then went on strike. While local unionists debated whether to call a general strike in support, Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge moved swiftly. He announced that none of the strikers would be rehired and mobilized the state police. An entirely new police force was recruited from among unemployed veterans of the Great War (now known as World War I).

Sixteen striking Filipino sugar workers on the Hawiian island of Kauai are killed by police. Many of the surviving strikers are jailed, then deported - 1924

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_09_09_2009