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Today in labor history: President Truman busts oil workers strike
October 4, 2012President Harry Truman ordered the U.S. Navy to seize oil refineries involved in a strike that stretched from coast to coast.
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Today in labor history: Singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie dies at age 55
October 3, 2012Guthrie traveled with workers and learned their traditional songs, earning himself the nickname "Dust Bowl Troubadour."
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Today in history: Thurgood Marshall sworn into Supreme Court
October 2, 2012Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as Supreme Court justice, making him the first African American in history to hold that position.
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Today in labor history: George Washington bridge opened
October 1, 2012The George Washington Bridge, a suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River and connecting Manhattan in New York City to Fort Lee in N.J., was officially inaugurated.
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U.S. Army stands down worldwide to focus on suicide prevention
September 27, 2012More U.S. soldiers are now killing themselves than are being killed in the wars in the Middle East. The Army brass ordered the stand down after July figures showed a record high 26 soldiers died in...
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Today in labor history: Suffragette socialist Sylvia Pankhurst dies in 1960
September 27, 2012Most people don't realize that a legendary suffragette, Sylvia Pankhurst, lived well into the mid-20th century.
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Today in labor history: First Model T leaves the assembly line
September 26, 2012The problems of speedup and other dangerous assembly line practices were skewered in Charlie Chaplin's classic film "Modern Times."
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Today in labor history: Eisenhower enforces racial integration in Little Rock
September 24, 2012Orval Faubus tried to prevent schools in Little Rock from integrating, despite the fact that the Supreme Court had ordered the desegregation of public schools three years prior.
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