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Hunt was a landmark legal decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on the subject of labor unions. Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ruled that unions were legal organizations and had the right to organize and strike. Before this decision, labor unions which attempted to 'close' or create a unionized workplace could be charged with ...
The American Federation of Labor union label, c. 1900 Samuel Gompers in 1894; he was the AFL leader 1886–1924. The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions began in 1881 under the leadership of Samuel Gompers. Like the National Labor Union, it was a federation of different unions and did not directly enroll workers. Its original goals ...
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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Labor history of the United States" ... Communist Party USA and American labor movement (1919–1937) ...
Samuel Ringgold Ward (pictured c. 1855) served as the union's first president.. On June 13, 1850, [7] in response to the difficulties faced by African Americans in joining existing labor unions and as part of a wave of efforts towards black economic self-sufficiency and cooperation, [8] [9] several noted social reformers and black activists met at the Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion ...
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. [5] [6] The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia.
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1941 – Lend-Lease, which supplies the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material during World War II 1941 – Operation Barbarossa 1941 – Attack on Pearl Harbor ; U.S. enters World War II by declaring war on Japan the next day on December 8; and three days later against Germany ...