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2. Workers were to start work at 8:00 AM and work until 12:00 PM 3. Workers were to take a one-hour lunch break from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM 4. Workers were to resume work starting at 1:00 PM and ending at 5:00 PM. The preciseness of the working times upset the workers. [4] Borie desegregated the Washington Navy Yard in June 1869. Photo taken 1867
Virden Massacre: The Chicago-Virden Coal Company attempted to break a strike by importing black replacement workers. After union workers stopped a train transporting non-union workers and a tense standoff, eight of the union workers were killed when guards opened fire from the train. Six guards were also killed and 30 persons were wounded.
The Washington Navy Yard shooting occurred on September 16, 2013, when 34-year-old Aaron Alexis fatally shot 12 people and injured three others in a mass shooting at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), inside the Washington Navy Yard, in southeast Washington, D.C. The attack took place in the Navy Yard's Building 197; it ...
Commodore Isaac Hull left the Navy Yard in September 1835, never to return. However, the regulation regarding the workers' lunch restrictions remained in place, and the work hours continued the same until 1840. [68] [69] For Navy Yard workers, the strike of 1835 revealed the weakness and tenuous nature of their bargaining situation. As day ...
Blue Jacket, or Weyapiersenwah (c. 1743 – 1810), was a war chief of the Shawnee people, known for his militant defense of Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country.Perhaps the preeminent American Indian leader in the Northwest Indian War, in which a pantribal confederacy fought several battles with the nascent United States, he was an important predecessor of the famous Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
The Yard was built under the direction of Benjamin Stoddert (1751-1813, served 1798-1801), as the first U.S. Secretary of the Navy, and heading the also new U.S. Department of the Navy in the presidential administration of the second President, John Adams (1735-1826, served 1797-1801), under the supervision of the Yard's first commandant ...
The Washington Navy Yard labor strike began on July 29, 1835, after Commodore Isaac Hull responded to thefts by limiting workers' lunch privileges. [8] The strikers wanted a ten-hour day and for Hull to retract his order. The strike, which eventually grew to 175 white mechanics and workers, [9] immediately exposed longstanding racial discord in ...
The United States Capitol, one of many places in Washington said to be haunted. Being the site of military battles, deadly duels, assassinations, untimely deaths, and other associated tragedies, there are a number of reportedly haunted locations in Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States.