Today in labor history Apr 4 Dr. King is assassinated while supporting a sanitation workers’ strike

[Omaha Steve]

April 04


April 4, 1907 - The first issue of The Labor Review, a "weekly magazine for organized workers," was published in Minneapolis. Edna George, a cigar packer in Minneapolis, won $10 in gold for suggesting the name “Labor Review.” The Labor Review has been published continuously since then. For more information, visit www.minneapolisunions.org and click on the link to the Labor Review Archive Project.

Unemployed riot in New York City’s Union Square - 1914


Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, where he has been supporting a sanitation workers’ strike. In the wake of this tragedy, riots break out in many cities, including Washington, DC - 1968

More on the sanitation strike here: http://www.afscme.org/about/1029.cfm

April 4, 1989 - The United Mine Workers scored one of the few wins for the labor movement in the 1980s. Some 1,700 UMWA miners employed a plant occupation, mass picketing, civil disobedience, a corporate campaign, and other tactics to achieve a major victory in a 9-month strike against contract concessions proposed by Pittston Coal Co.

[MADem]

1. And tomorrow is the anniversary of The Night James Brown Saved Boston

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89273314

I wonder if PBS will re-air that program. Some enterprising soul put it up on YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=james+brown+saved+boston

I remember watching that live...and then, they reran it. We watched it again.