Today in Labor History November 26, 1883: Abolitionist, women’s rights activist and former slave Sojourner Truth died on this date in Battle Creek, Michigan. She escaped slavery in 1826 and then sued her former master in 1828 to win the freedom of her son. She won the lawsuit, making her the first black woman to […]

1800s Today in Labor History November 25, 1874: Farmers and union workers in the U.S., suffering from the Panic of 1873 established the Greenback Party. The party’s goals included the elimination of foreign capitalists, land speculators, and poverty among laboring men. 1910s Today in Labor History November 25, 1919: A strike for union recognition by 365,000

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

Today in Labor History November 23, 1644: At the height of the English Civil War, John Milton published an anti-censorship pamphlet, “Areopagitica.” The authorities had censored several times, particularly for his attempts to defend divorce, a radical idea in those days. He anonymously published “The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce” (1643). The Puritan clergy condemned it as heretical and supportive of

1830w Today in Labor History November 22, 1831: The revolt of the silk workers continued in Lyon, France. Workers seized arms and fought the military. Approximately 100 died, 69 of them civilians. And the wounded over 260 soldiers. 1890s Today in Labor History November 22, 1891: Dr. Edward L. Bernays was born in Vienna, Austria. Many