1880s-1910s Today in Labor History September 2, 1885: 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize for better wages and work conditions, attacked their Chinese fellow workers in the Rock Springs massacre in Wyoming. As a result, they killed 28 Chinese miners, wounded 15 others and forced all the other Chinese to flee town. By the time the […]
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1880s Today in Labor History September 1, 1880: The utopian communistic Oneida Community ended after 32 years. John Humphrey Noyes founded the community in 1848 near Oneida, New York. They believed that Jesus had already returned in AD 70, allowing them to bring about Jesus’s millennial kingdom themselves. The Community practiced communalism (holding all property and possessions in common). They also practiced complex marriage, where
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1700s-1800s Today in Labor History August 31, 1798: Irish rebels, with French assistance, established the short-lived Republic of Connacht during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. On September 8, 1798 the British army defeated the new Republic at the Battle of Ballinamuck. The British army then spread out into the rebel-held Province of Connacht, slaughtering people and burning
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Today in History August 30, 1797: Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright was born. She is most famous for her novel, “Frankenstein.” However, Shelley wrote several other novels. She was also a political radical throughout her life. Shelley married the romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelly. Her father was the early anarchist philosopher, William Godwin. And her
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Today in Labor History July 17, 1913: Seattle’s Potlatch Riots began, when soldiers and sailors brawled with members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) during Seattle’s Potlatch Festival. Alden Blethen, publisher of the “Seattle Times,” who hated free speech and feared “radical elements,” had been fanning the flames of reaction against the IWW and local
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