Today in Labor History June 7 Six strike leaders are convicted of “conspiracy to murder” (post 28999

[Omaha Steve]

My last post until I learn who the next VP of my union will be. I had my interview by the board members that make the decision this afternoon. No word yet.

OS

June 7

Militia sent to Cripple Creek, Colo., to suppress Western Federation of Miners strike – 1904

Sole performance of Pageant of the Paterson (NJ) Strike, created and performed by 1,000 mill workers from the silk industry strike, New York City – 1913


Striking textile workers battle police in Gastonia, N.C. Police Chief O.F. Aderholt is accidentally killed by one of his own officers. Six strike leaders are convicted of “conspiracy to murder” and are sentenced to jail for from 5 to 20 years - 1929 (For more on the history of the textile workers, check out There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America, a sympathetic, thoughtful and highly readable history of the American labor movement traces unionism from the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1820s to organized labor’s decline in the 1980s and struggle for survival and growth today. In the UCS bookstore now.)

Founding convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers. The merger brought together the Retail Clerks International Union and the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America - 1979

And this:
June 7, 1979 - The historic founding convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union brought together the Retail Clerks International Union and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America. For more about the UFCW, visit the union's website, www.ufcw.org


The United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club announce the formation of a strategic alliance to pursue a joint public policy agenda under the banner of Good Jobs, A Clean Environment, and A Safer World - 2006

Labor history found here:http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_06_07_2011