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Today in labor history: Mother Jones leads march of miners’ children
September 21, 2012Labor organizer Mother Jones led a march of miners' children through the streets of Charleston to illustrate the effects of poverty.
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Today in Labor History: “The Jungle” published
September 20, 2012Upton Sinclair, a poor young socialist determined to do his part to make a better world, wrote his incredible book in the tarpaper shack that was his home.
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College’s antiquated policies up against new generation of thinkers
September 19, 2012The school is governed by a very conservative Board of Trustees, which imposes right-wing policies and codes of conduct under the guise of our religion.
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Today in labor history: Tuskegee Institute opened
September 19, 2012The school focused at least officially on industrial and agricultural education in keeping with Washington's pedagogy and philosophy
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Today in Labor History: 1934 textile workers strike begins
September 18, 2012The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in U.S. labor history at the time, involving as many as 500,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S.Southern states.
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Today in Labor History: First Civil War battle in north
September 17, 2012On Sept. 17, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed at the Antietam, one of the most important battles of the Civil War.
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Today in labor history: Textile workers ambushed
September 14, 2012The AFL-CIO expanded Wiggins' grave marker in 1979, to include the phrase, "She died carrying the torch of social justice."
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Today in labor history: Attica prison uprising ends
September 13, 2012Today in labor history in 1971, 11 AFSCME-represented prison employees and 33 inmates died after an uprising at Attica Correctional Facility in New York State and its subsequent bloody end with 1,000 police and national guard...
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