Today in Labor History November 5, 1855: Labor leader and socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. Today in Labor History November 5, 1911: A Francisco Ferrer statue was erected at the Place de Sainte-Catherine, Brussels, in honor of the radical educator executed by the Spanish government in 1909. The statue […]
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Today in Labor History November 4, 1918: 100,000 German sailors mutinied at Kiel, seizing control of all ships. The revolt triggered the German Revolution that marked the end the monarchy and the beginning of the Weimar Republic. It also led to the Spartacist Uprising of 1919. Today in Labor History November 4, 1924: Nellie Tayloe Ross,
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When people think of California and natural disasters, they usually think of earthquakes, wildfires and droughts. But the worst natural disaster to hit the west in the last 160 years was the Great Flood of 1862, a series of storms that inundated much of the land, from Oregon to San Diego. The agriculturally rich Central
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Today in Labor History October 24, 1641: Felim O’Neill of Kinard, the leader of the Irish Rebellion, issued his Proclamation of Dungannon, justifying their uprising to end to anti-Catholic discrimination, create greater Irish self-governance and to reverse the plantations of Ireland. The rebels attacked Protestant plantation settlements and took garrison towns held by the Irish Army. It began as an attempted coup d’état by
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Today in Labor History October 23, 1874: Otto Rühle (1874-1943) was born on this day in Freiberg. Ruhle was a left council communist of the Spartacist League. Along with Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg and Franz Mehring, Ruhle helped found the magazine Internationale. Ruhle opposed both world wars, Leninism, fascism, and Bolshevism. Early in his life,
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