Today In Labor History

31 October

Tennessee sends in leased convict laborers to break a coal miners strike in Anderson County. The miners revolted, burned the stockades, and sent the captured convicts by train back to Knoxville – 1891

Int’l Alliance of Bill Posters, Billers & Distributors of the United States & Canada surrendered AFL-CIO charter and disbanded – 1971

I have been remiss in my duty here…..I have neglected to mention that the information for this and all post on labor hiustory can be found at :

http://www.biglabor.com

2 thoughts on “Today In Labor History

  1. Friend:

    Thank you so much for the prompt fix, it’s much appreciated. Keep up the good work.

    In unity,
    David Prosten at UCS

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