Tag Archives: Strikes

1925: The Sleeping Factory

Posted on August 31, 2017 by corvusfugit

     Daniel Vázquez Díaz: La fábrica bajo la niebla [The Factory in the Mist] (c. 1920) La fábrica dormida [The Sleeping Factory] (1925) In February 1919, after eight workers were fired for political reasons from a hydroelectric plant in Barcelona, … Continue reading →

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1937: Celebration

Posted on August 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Workers’ wives celebrate end of CIO strike of Caterpillar Tractor Company East Peoria, Illinois, April 9, 1937 When the historic UAW sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan, ended after a month and a half on February 11, 1937, it unleashed a … Continue reading →

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1959: Even a Kid Knows it’s Wrong to Cross a Picket Line

Posted on August 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

“Helen Martinez and her children (her grandchild was too young to picket) wear placards announcing that Tex-Son workers are on strike.” (source)

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1958: Don’t Cross Our Mom’s Picket Line

Posted on August 8, 2017 by corvusfugit

International Ladies Garment Workers Union picket line at Michele Frocks, Scranton PA, 1958 (source)

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2012: Celebration

Posted on July 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

Siphiwe Sibeko: Mineworkers at the Lonmin Marikana mine in South Africa celebrate a 22% pay increase after an extended strike (2012) (source)

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1916: Don’t Be A Scab

Posted on July 16, 2017 by corvusfugit

I’d seen this beautiful photograph before, but hadn’t realized it existed in such high definition. I retouched it a little (the original is here, at the Library of Congress) and drew out some of the details: The date for the … Continue reading →

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1934: Striker

Posted on July 9, 2017 by corvusfugit

Virginia Matthews, secretary of the Philadelphia branch of the United Textile Workers of America (1934) (source)

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1892: How to Deal with Scabs

Posted on May 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

CLEVERLY CAPTURED A very clever piece of work was recently done by Thomas I. Kidd in preventing the bosses putting an end to the strike of the St. Louis machine woodworkers for a shorter working day. Mr. Kidd is the … Continue reading →

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312 BC: A Musicians’ Strike in Ancient Rome

Posted on May 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

It is…a mistaken idea to suppose that strikes are modern inventions. They are indeed of ancient origin. Livy speaks of an or­ganized strike in the year 312 b.c., the description of which, although sufficiently humorous to make a background to … Continue reading →

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