Today in labor history. June 29 What is to be a 7-day streetcar strike begins in Chicago after several workers are unfairly fired. Wrote the police chief at the time, describing the strikers’ response to scabs: One of my men said he was at the corner of Halsted and Madison Streets, and although he could see fifty stones in the air, he couldnt tell where they were coming from. The strike was settled to the workers’ satisfaction - 1885 An executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes the National Labor Relations Board. A predecessor organization, the National Labor Board, established by the Depression-era National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933, had been struck down by the Supreme Court - 1934 IWW strikes Weyerhauser and other Idaho lumber camps - 1936 Jesus Pallares, founder of the 8,000-member coal miners union, Liga Obrera de Habla Espanola, is deported as an undesirable alien. The union operated in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado - 1936 The Boilermaker and Blacksmith unions merge to become Int’l Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers - 1954 The newly-formed Jobs With Justice stages its first big support action, backing 3,000 picketing Eastern Airlines mechanics at Miami Airport - 1987 Www.jwj.org The U.S. Supreme Court rules in CWA v. Beck that, in a union security agreement, a union can collect as dues from non-members only that money necessary to perform its duties as a collective bargaining representative - 1988 From unionist June 29, 1898 – Michael Schwab, who was convicted for the Haymarket bombing, died from tuberculosis, having been pardoned and released from prison just a few months prior. June 29, 1919 – Striking meat-workers in Townsville, Queensland, Australia clashed with police. Nine people were wounded in an exchange of gunshots. June 29, 1936 – Jesus Pallares, founder of the 8,000-member coal miners union, Liga Obrera de Habla Esanola, was deported from the U.S. as an undesirable alien. One hundred miners were arrested during the 1934 La Liga strike against the Gallup American Company in New Mexico. June 29, 1941 – Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998), founder of the U.S. civil rights group the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Emigrated to the United States. June 29, 1983 – President Reagan said that one cause of the decline in public education was the effort to comply with court-ordered desegregation. From modeducation.blogspot/2013/06/today-in-labor-historyjune-29.html?m=1 1) Int’l Brotherhood of Boilermakers 2) Jobs With Justice 3) Haymarket martyr Michael Schwab 4) Stokely Carmichael
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