1880s-1910s Today in Labor History September 2, 1885: 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize for better wages and work conditions, attacked their Chinese fellow workers in the Rock Springs massacre in Wyoming. As a result, they killed 28 Chinese miners, wounded 15 others and forced all the other Chinese to flee town. By the time the […]
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1880s Today in Labor History September 1, 1880: The utopian communistic Oneida Community ended after 32 years. John Humphrey Noyes founded the community in 1848 near Oneida, New York. They believed that Jesus had already returned in AD 70, allowing them to bring about Jesus’s millennial kingdom themselves. The Community practiced communalism (holding all property and possessions in common). They also practiced complex marriage, where
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