by AFT | Jul 31, 2018 | Hot Topics
July 30 President Lyndon Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965, establishing Medicare and Medicaid – 1965 Former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears. Declared legally dead in 1982, his body has never been found – 1975 United Airlines agrees...
by AFT | Jul 23, 2018 | Hot Topics
July 23 Anarchist Alexander Berkman shoots and stabs but fails to kill steel magnate Henry Clay Frick in an effort to avenge the Homestead massacre 18 days earlier, in which nine strikers were killed. Berkman also tried to use what was, in effect, a suicide bomb, but...
by AFT | Jul 16, 2018 | Hot Topics
July 16 Ten thousand workers strike Chicago’s Int’l Harvester operations – 1919 Martial law declared in strike by longshoremen in Galveston, Texas – 1920 San Francisco Longshoremen’s strike spreads, becomes 4-day general strike – 1934...
