labor history
94 Years after Ludlow Massacre, site now national historic landmark
February 23, 2009Original source: On April 20, 1914, in Ludlow, Colo., one of the bloodiest chapters in the nation’s labor history was written. Thugs hired by several coal companies and the Colorado militia attacked a peaceful encampment of...
Read moreTwo Black workers who made history
February 6, 2009BALTIMORE — Helen Evans was turning the pages of an album of photos of her father, Joseph P. Henderson, when her eye fell on a picture of him as a Laborers union organizer in Washington, D.C.,...
Read moreRekindling socialism with Eugene V. Debs
April 12, 2008BOOK REVIEW The Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle Edited by William A. Pelz Institute of Working Class History, 2008 $17.50, paperback, 205 pp Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926), one of America’s most famous...
Read moreArt Shields: Labor’s great reporter
May 18, 2007Art Shields was the Daily Worker’s greatest labor reporter. I got to know Art and his wife Esther, herself a labor journalist, soon after I joined the staff of the Worker in January 1967. Art helped...
Read moreFred Gaboury, dean of labor writers, 78
February 12, 2004Fred Gaboury, a logger from the Pacific Northwest, had Paul Bunyan-sized hands so big he couldn’t make his fingers hit the right typewriter keys. Yet in 30 years as a peerless labor writer, he interviewed hundreds...
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