In Seattle and San Francisco workers make more and restaurants thrive… Anthrax attacks kill 5 in DC, including 2 postal workers…today’s labor quote by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

“I don’t support what’s happening. I don’t think this city or our nation can afford to have Providence Hospital close”… Mineworkers occupy Pittston Coal plant…today’s labor quote by Susan B. Anthony.

“I don’t support what’s happening. I don’t think this city or our nation can afford to have Providence Hospital close”… Mineworkers occupy Pittston Coal plant…today’s labor quote by Susan B. Anthony.

This week's labor history: racial justice activist Bill Fletcher reminds us of an 1893 strike in California by Chinese, Portuguese and Paiute Indians…Lauren Coodley, author of “Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual”… ATU’s Chris Townsend’s memories of Solidarity Day…our Labor History Object of the Week is original correspondence from the American Federation of Labor on expanding Social Security’s coverage.

Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at [email protected]

Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.

Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/

This week's music:

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle ("The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Parody) - @MrBettsClass

https://youtu.be/TcuTvvpLzok

Solidarity Forever - Tom Morello The Nightwatchman

https://youtu.be/pBpUniD7VGE

This week's labor history: racial justice activist Bill Fletcher reminds us of an 1893 strike in California by Chinese, Portuguese and Paiute Indians…Lauren Coodley, author of “Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual”… ATU’s Chris Townsend’s memories of Solidarity Day…our Labor History Object of the Week is original correspondence from the American Federation of Labor on expanding Social Security’s coverage.

Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at [email protected]

Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.

Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/

This week's music:

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle ("The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Parody) - @MrBettsClass

https://youtu.be/TcuTvvpLzok

Solidarity Forever - Tom Morello The Nightwatchman

https://youtu.be/pBpUniD7VGE

U.S. government now wants demonstrators to pay to use our parks, sidewalks and streets … Landrum-Griffin Act restricts secondary boycotting and picketing…today’s labor quote from “A Mill Mother’s Lament.”

U.S. government now wants demonstrators to pay to use our parks, sidewalks and streets … Landrum-Griffin Act restricts secondary boycotting and picketing…today’s labor quote from “A Mill Mother’s Lament.”

“Where will these people go? With only one other acute-care hospital on the east side of D.C., we cannot afford to lose any more medical services”… Post Office orders mail clerks to shoot bandits …plus today’s labor quotes from Attica.

Chris Garlock, with Ed Smith

“Where will these people go? With only one other acute-care hospital on the east side of D.C., we cannot afford to lose any more medical services”… Post Office orders mail clerks to shoot bandits …plus today’s labor quotes from Attica.