Today In Labor History

05 November

Eugene V. Debs – labor leader, socialist, three-time candidate for president and first president of the American Railway Union, born – 1855

Eugene V. Debs, candidate for president under the banner of the Socialist Party, wins six percent of the vote – 1912

Everett, Wash., massacre, at least seven Wobblies killed, 50 wounded and an indeterminate number missing – 1916

Some 12,000 television and movie writers begin what was to become a three-month strike against producers over demands for an increase in pay for movies and television shows released on DVD and for a bigger share of the revenue from work delivered over the Internet – 2007

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