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The Elevator Strikes were a series of labor strikes that took place from the 1920s to the 1960s across the United States, but most notably in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Before the automation of elevators, elevator operators had to "open and close the manual doors, control the direction and speed of the car, take requests from ...
The US strike wave of 1945–1946 or great strike wave of 1946[1] were a series of massive post-war labor strikes after World War II from 1945 to 1946 in the United States spanning numerous industries including the motion picture (Hollywood Black Friday) and public utilities. In the year after V-J Day, more than five million American workers ...
1942–1944 musicians' strike. 1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike. 1946 United States steel strike. 1947 Telephone strike. 1948 Boeing strike. 1949 Calvary Cemetery strike. 1949 New York City brewery strike. 1949 New York City taxicab strike.
Cedar-Riverside is located in Minneapolis City Council Wards 2 and 6, represented by Robin Wonsley and Jamal Osman, respectively.. The neighborhood is part of the University community, and is dominated by the West Bank campus of the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus, which includes the Law School, Carlson School of Management, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and West ...
Ford Strikers Riot is a 1941 photograph which shows a strikebreaker getting beaten by United Auto Workers (UAW) strikers. Photographer Milton Brooks captured the image and it won the first Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1942. In the image, workers were picketing at the Ford Motor Company and a man clashed with the union men who were picketing.
1814 – Wm. Sheldon opened the first store at the corner of King Street and John Street. [ 1 ] 1815 – A chopping mill is the first industry in Hamilton, Ontario. [ 14 ] 1815 – George Hamilton, a settler and local politician, established a town site in the northern portion Barton Township after the war in 1815.
The history of the United States from 1917 to 1945 was marked by World War I, the interwar period, the Great Depression, and World War II. The United States tried and failed to broker a peace settlement for World War I, then entered the war after Germany launched a submarine campaign against U.S. merchant ships that were supplying Germany's ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. The Detroit Financial District is a United States historic district in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The district was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on December 14, 2009, [1] and was announced as the featured listing in the National Park Service 's weekly list of December 24, 2009.