Labor History

Today in Labor History February 18, 1885: Mark Twain published the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1940s Today in Labor History February 18, 1943: The Nazis arrested the members of the White Rose movement. The activist group called for opposition to the Nazi regime through an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign.  The Nazis put on a show trial and refused […]

Today in Labor History February 17, 1906: The authorities arrested “Big Bill” Haywood and two other union members on trumped up charges for the murder of former Idaho Governor Frank Stuenenberg. Clarence Darrow successfully defended them. He told jurors, “If at the behest of this mob you should kill Bill Haywood, he is mortal, he

Today in Labor History February 15, 1764: the city of St. Louis was established in Spanish Louisiana (now Missouri). In the 1800s, St. Louis would grow to become the second largest port in the U.S. and one of the major centers of labor organizing. In 1877, during the Great Train Strike, black and white workers

Today in Labor History February 14, 1349: Mobs burned hundred Jews to death in the Strasbourg Massacre. They forcibly deported the remaining Jews. 1500s-1600s Today in Labor History February 14, 1530: Spanish conquistadores, led by Nuño de Guzmán, overthrew and murdered Tangaxuan II, the last independent monarch of the Tarascan state in present-day central Mexico. Today in Labor History February 14, 1655:

1600s Today in Labor History February 13, 1633: Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. The Inquisition found him “vehemently suspect of heresy” and forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest. Today in Labor History February 13, 1635: Boston Latin School was opened. It was the first public school in