This Week in Labor History: 11/26 – 12/2

November 26 Six young women burn to death and 19 more die when they leap from the fourth-story windows of a blazing factory in Newark, N.J. The floors and stairs were wooden; the only door through which the women could flee was locked – 1910 November 27 Some...

This Week in Labor History: 11/19 – 11/25

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!   November 19 Joe Hill, labor leader and songwriter, executed in Utah on what many believe was a framed charge of murder. Before he died he declared: “Don’t waste any time mourning. Organize.” – 1915 The nation’s first automatic...