Today in Labor History Feb 10, 11 members of the Carpenters’ union shot, 3 fatally & more

[Omaha Steve]

February 10

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) founds the Building and Construction Trades Department as a way to overcome the jurisdictional conflicts occurring in the building and construction unions - 1908

February 10, 1913 - Rubber workers belonging to the Industrial Workers of the World went on strike in Akron, Ohio.

Eleven members of the Carpenters’ union in Reesor Siding, Northern Ontario are shot, three fatally, by independent local farmer-settlers who were supplying wood to a Spruce Falls Power and Paper Co. plant. Some 400 union members were attempting to block an outbound shipment from the plant. The action came as the company was insisting on a pay freeze and two months of seven-day-a-week work - 1963

Forty workers are killed on Staten Island, NY when a huge storage tank filled with liquefied gas explodes - 1974

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_02_10_2010