Today in Labor History November 24, 1859: Charles Darwin‘s Origin of the Species was published.
November 24, 1875: The Cigar Makers International Union, Local 144, was chartered with Samuel Gompers as president.
Today in Labor History November 24, 1917: A bomb killed nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department, the most police deaths in a single event until the September 11 attacks in 2001. No one ever caught the culprits. But police suspected anarchists from the Galleanist faction led by followers of Luigi Galleani. Many years later, evidence came out that Croatian national Mario Buda, chief bombmaker for the Galleanists may have built the Milwaukee bomb.
November 24, 1921: The U.S. deported the anarchist, Mollie Steimer, to the USSR, after imprisoning her for 18 months. Her crime? Handing out leaflets opposing the deployment of U.S. troops against Soviet Russia. However, the Soviets deported her in 1923 for aiding “criminal elements.”
Today in Labor History November 24, 1927: On Thanksgiving Day, California troops battled 1,200 inmates when Folsom prisoners revolted. 7 prisoners and 2 guards died. They later hanged 5 other prisoners.
November 24, 1947: A Chicago newspaper printers’ strike began in opposition to the recently passed anti-labor Taft-Hartley Act.
November 24, 2012: A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed over 117 people. The company produced clothes for Walmart and the U.S. marines.