Today in Labor History November 7, 1912: Ernest Riebe’s “Mr. Block,” IWW labor comic strip first appeared in print. Mr. Block was one of the best-loved features in the Wobbly press. Joe Hill wrote a song about “Mr. Block,” who was a boss-loving, American Dream-believing, self-sabotaging knucklehead. Some call Riebe the first “underground” comic book […]
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Today in Labor History November 6, 1872: Suffragist leader Susan B. Anthony received a $100 fine for attempting to vote in a U.S. presidential election. Women did not win the right to vote until 1920. Today in Labor History November 6, 1918: The Kiel mutiny spread to Hamburg and led to the creation of Workers’ Councils. Three
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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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