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At least two tailors died as police confronted a street mob of about 300 strikers, mostly German, with clubs. [2] These deaths stand as the "first recorded strike fatalities in U.S. history". [3] July 7, 1851 Portage, New York: Railroad Strike 2 Two striking workers of the New York and Erie Railroad were shot and killed by police officers.
One of the world’s biggest manufacturers of industrial vehicles and equipment has been cited and penalized for the death of a worker who fell into an 11-foot-deep pot of molten iron heated to ...
He died in 1961, while still in office, with Arthur J. Goldberg describing him as "one of the most highly talented and dedicated labor statesmen I have had the good fortune to know". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Lyons was succeeded as president of the union by his son, John H. Lyons, Jr. [ 4 ]
In January 1973 McAlpine purchased 4472 Flying Scotsman after a financially disastrous tour of North America, to save it from sale to an American consortium. [2] [9] McAlpine became involved in a plan to save the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway (RH&DR) and became its chairman.
Royal died Monday at the age of 67. Walter Royal, the chef of a destination steakhouse in North Carolina who The post Walter Royal, acclaimed North Carolina chef who won Iron Chef America, dies at ...
Mohawk skywalkers is a nickname for Mohawk ironworkers and other construction workers who have helped construct buildings and bridges in American and Canadian cities including New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Detroit, Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal.
Henry Burden died of heart disease on Thursday morning, January 19, 1871. [13] Burden's funeral was held at the Woodside Presbyterian Church, which he had built near the ironworks. On the day of the funeral the Burden Mills, the Albany Iron Works, the J.A. Griswold & Co. works, and the Cohoes rolling mill of Morrison and Colwell all closed so ...
The last man to live in an iron lung died in Dallas on Monday. Paul Alexander, 78, spent more than 70 years confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child in 1952.