Labor History

1830s Today in Labor History December 28, 1835: Seminole Chief Osceola led his warriors in Florida in the Second Seminole War against the United States Army. Roughly 1,600 U.S. troops and 3,000 Seminoles died in the conflict. It was the longest and costliest of the wars the fought against the indigenous people of North America. 1860s Today in Labor History December 28, […]

1910s Today in Labor History December 27, 1913: IWW workers in Edmonton, Alberta Canada began a rebellion that ultimately forced the city to house 400 unemployed during winter.  At the time, Edmonton, was a major railroad center. Thousands of workers from all over Canada and the U.S. had come for work. However, they ended up

1860s Today in Labor History December 26, 1862: The U.S. military hanged 38 Native Americans in Mankato, Minnesota, for participating in the “Sioux Outbreak,” in the nation’s largest public mass execution. They built the gallows in a square shape, with ten nooses per side. They buried the victims in a mass grave along the bank of the Minnesota River.

1500s-1700s Today in Labor History December 25, 1553: Mapuche Chief Lautaro led rebels in the Battle of Tucapel. They defeated the Spanish conquistadors and killed the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia. Today in Labor History December 25, 1766: The Mapuche uprising of 1766 began with a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish on this date. The uprising was the

1800s Today in Labor History December 24, 1800: The Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise failed to kill Napoleon Bonaparte. However, the bomb killed five other people and injured twenty-six. The plotters used a Machine Infernale, an explosive device made from a barrel bound with iron hoops and filled with gunpowder, flammable materials and bullets. They set it off