Today in Labor History November 6, 1872: Suffragist leader Susan B. Anthony received a $100 fine for attempting to vote in a U.S. presidential election. Women did not win the right to vote until 1920.
Today in Labor History November 6, 1918: The Kiel mutiny spread to Hamburg and led to the creation of Workers’ Councils. Three days later, Berlin followed suit, then all Germany, marking the beginning of the Spartacist Revolution, involving anarchists, socialists and communists.
Today in Labor History November 6, 1922: A coal mine explosion in Spangler, Pennsylvania, killed 77 workers.
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