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Today in labor history for the week of July 7, 2008
 July 07 Mary Harris “Mother” Jones begins “The March of the Mill Children”, when, accompanied part of the way by children, she walked from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt’s home on Long Island to protest the plight of child laborers. One of her demands: reduce the childrens’ work week to 55 hours - 1903 Some 500,000 people participate when a two-day general strike is called in Puerto Rico by more than 60 trade unions and many other organizations. They are protesting privatization of the island’s telephone company - 1998 July 08 First anthracite coal strike in U.S. - 1842 Labor organizer Ella Reeve “Mother” Bloor born on Staten Island, NY. Among her activities: investigating child labor in glass factories and mines, and working undercover in meat packing plants to verify for federal investigators the nightmarish working conditions that author Upton Sinclair had revealed in “The Jungle” - 1862 Founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W., or Wobblies) concludes in Chicago. Charles O. Sherman, a former American Federation of Labor organizer, is elected president - 1905 July 09 New England Telephone “girls” strike for seven-hour workday, $27 weekly pay after four years’ service - 1923 United Packinghouse, Food & Allied Workers merge with Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen - 1968  Five thousand demonstrators rally at the state capitol in Columbia, S.C. in support of the “Charleston Five,” labor activists charged with felony rioting during a police attack on a 2000 longshoremen’s picket of a non-union crew unloading a ship - 2001 July 10 Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights activist, born - 1875 July 11 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho miners seize coal mines - 1892 A nine-year strike, the longest in the history of the United Auto Workers, began at the Ohio Crankshaft Division of Park-Ohio Industries Inc. in Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio. Despite scabs, arrests and firings, UAW Local 91 members hung tough and in 1992 won a fair contract— 1983 July 12 Bisbee, Ariz. deports Wobblies; 1,186 miners sent into desert - 1917 July 13 Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union organized in Tyronza, Ark. - 1934 Detroit newspaper workers begin 19-month strike against Gannett, Knight-Ridder - 1995 Sources: Toil and Trouble, by Thomas R. Brooks; American Labor Struggles, by Samuel Yellen; IWW calendar, Solidarity Forever; Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor, edited by Robert E. Weir and James P. Hanlan; Southwest Labor History Archives/George Meany Center; Geov Parrish’s Radical History; workday Minnesota; Andy Richards, AFL-CIO Washington DC Metro Council (graphics research).
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