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Tag Archives: Unions
1961: A Song Bob Dylan Never Wrote
From Dylan’s Chronicles Volume One (2004): I can’t say when it occurred to me to write my own songs. I couldn’t have come up with anything comparable or halfway close to the folk song lyrics I was singing to define … Continue reading
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Tagged "Big Bill" Haywood, 1960's, 20th Century, Alfred Hayes, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Earl Robinson, IWW, Joe Hill, Labor, Leadbelly, Music, Paul RObeson, Photography, Saints, St. Augustine, Ted Russell, Unions, USA, Woody Guthrie
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1921: Beware the Ides of March
The National Association for the Promotion of Labor Unionism Among Negroes was founded in 1918 by A. Philip Randolph—the great union organizer who would later form the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters—and writer Chandler Owens; it was promoted through their … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, A. Philip Randolph, African-Americans, Chandler Owens, Civil Rights, Labor, Socialism & Communism, Unions, USA
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1944: The Removal of Sewell Avery
In 1942, in an effort to avoid strikes in war-related industries, Franklin Roosevelt reinstated the War Labor Board and directed it to oversee and arbitrate negotiations between unions and employers. Most unions had also agreed not to strike during the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Hall, Harry S. Truman, Industry, Labor, Montgomery Ward, Photography, Sewell Avery, Strikes, Unions, USA, WWII
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1959: Capital and Labor
Sister Concilla sets the record straight on labor unions. Note the union bug indicating the comic was printed in a union shop.
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Christianity, Comics, Nuns, Popes, Religion, Strikes, Unions, USA
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1954: Zombies, Unite!
For Labor Day: a grave-digger’s strike leads to disasterous consequences in this 1954 story from Voodoo comics:
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, Art, Comics, Death, Strikes, Unions, Zombies
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1945: With These Blows of My Hammer
On September 14, 1945, trade unionist Paul Bebert, a former concentration camp prisoner, destroyed the swastikas that Nazis has affixed to union offices in Hamburg. He read this statement to the crowd: With these blows of my hammer I will … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Fascism, Germany, Labor, Paul Bebert, Unions, WWII
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1987: Basebenzi Masimanyane
Congress of South African Trade Unions: 1987 Calendar In 1987, COSATU conducted a two-day strike during the general elections in May as part of its Living Wage Campaign. More than 2.5 million workers took part. Later that month, their headquarters … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, Africa, Civil Rights, Labor, Mines, South Africa, Strikes, Unions
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1973: And Here As In Other Places
Fold-out poster of Emiliano Zapata from El Malcriado, newsletter of the United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO (May 4,1973) (source) …And here as in other places, enslaved men and women, whose consciousness has been asleep, are waking up, looking around struggling…
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Art, Emiliano Zapata, Labor, Latino/as/x, Mexico, Posters, Revolution, Unions, USA
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1946: First They Came
Although this is one of the world’s most famous poems, there is no definitive version of it. Indeed, there is no clear evidence that its author, the Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller, ever put it into poetic form. Several variations exist, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Christianity, Disability, Fascism, Germany, Harold Marcuse, Holocaust, Judaism, Martin Niemöller, Museums, Poetry, Religion, Socialism & Communism, Unions, WWII
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