The following is a timeline of labor history, organizing & conflicts, from the early 1600s to present.
Founding of the Allgemeine Deutsche Arbeiterverbrüderung (General German Workers-Brotherhood) [13] New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860 The Battle of the Barn James B. Duke and Southern Company break strike by local streetcar motormen and conductors by calling in troops.
The Burning of Jamestown
by Howard Pyle depicts the burning of Jamestown, Virginia during
Bacon's Rebellion
(1676–77).
Women in England mourning their lovers who are soon to be transported to
Botany Bay
, 1792
1836 Constitution of the Lowell Factory Girls Association
Eureka Stockade Riot
by John Black Henderson (1854).
Labor Day Parade. Union St., N.Y, circa 1859–1899, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
February 6, 1869 Illustration from Harper's Weekly of the Colored National Labor Union convention in Washington, D.C. Store Web page states: "from Harper's Weekly magazine with 6 × 9 [inch] wood-engraved illustration of the National Colored Convention in Session at Washington, D.C."
Uriah Stephens
, pre-1882. Stephens (1821 - 1882) was a U.S. labor leader. He led nine Philadelphia garment workers to found the Knights of Labor in 1869, a more successful early national union.
Photograph of Alexander Campbell "Father of the Greenback Party"
The
Socialist Labor Party of America
does not seem to have used its distinctive arm-and-hammer logo until it appeared on the front page of
The Workmen's Advocate
in 1885.
Thirty-fifth annual meeting of the Trades and Labour Congress, Hamilton, 1919.
Pullman strikers outside Arcade Building in Pullman, Chicago. The Illinois National Guard can be seen guarding the building during the Pullman Railroad Strike in 1894.
Lattimer massacre: Mine workers began their protest march near Harwood and many were eventually killed by the Luzerne County sheriff in Lattimer.
Miner extracting ore from Bunker Hill mine
Coal miners in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, 1902
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission Appointed 1902 by President Roosevelt, a stereo card of the commission appointed by Theodore Roosevelt to resolve the
Coal Strike of 1902
.
American labor activist Mother Jones (1837–1930)
Labor Day Parade, float of Women's Trade Union League, New York, 1908 September 7
Pennsylvania constabulary, mounted on horses, at McKee's Rock,
c.
1909
Two women strikers on picket line during the "Uprising of the 20,000", garment workers strike, New York City. Strikes, ladies tailors, N.Y., Feb. 1910, picket girls on duty
Rubble of the
Los Angeles Times
building in 1910
Image of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on 25 March 1911
Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912
Flyer distributed in Lawrence, September 1912. The Lawrence Textile Strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World.
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) demonstration in New York, 11 April 1914
Deportation of striking miners from Bisbee, Arizona, on 12 July 1917. Striking miners and others are marched from Warren Ballpark along railroad tracks toward cattle cars belonging to the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad.
The wreckage of Chicago's Federal Building after the explosion of a bomb allegedly planted by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)...1918
Coming out of the smoke : newspaper cartoon depicting the steel strike, New York World, 1919 October 11
View of Matewan, West Virginia. Matewan Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, was the site of the Battle of Matewan in May 1920 during a coal miners' strike.
President John L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers of America (right) photographed today at the Capitol, talking over the coal situation with Representative Nolan, Chairman of the Labor Committee of the House of Representatives, 1922 April 3
Samuel Gompers Gravesite in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
A Dominion Coal Company colliery in
Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia
, ca. 1900. This mine would become one of numerous assets of the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation upon its founding in 1928 through corporate acquisitions.
Protest for Sacco and Vanzetti in London, 1921
This cartoon from the monthly magazine of the CPLA illustrates the organization's view of the American Federation of Labor.
Francis Perkins looks on as Franklin Roosevelt signs the Wagner-Peyser Bill creating the US Employment Service, 6 June 1935
Sit-down strikers guarding window entrance to Fisher body plant number three. Photo by
Sheldon Dick
, 1937.
Flint Sit-Down Strike window
Western Union A Labor Day Telegram to All Goodyearites from Forrestal Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Patterson Under Secretary of War, 3 September 1942
War Labor Board anthracite hearing. John L. Lewis (right), President of the United Mine Workers (UMW), confers with Thomas Kennedy (left), Secretary-Treasurer of the UMW, and Perry Tetlow (center), president of UMW District 17, at the War Labor Board conference 15 January 1943, about the anthracite coal miners' strike, 1943 January 15
Doctor's office. The doctor for this camp is hired by Dr. Anderson, head doctor for the Kingston Pocahontas Coal Company, locally. Since the strike Dr. Anderson has cut off all funds for cleaning of this office. Kingston Pocahontas Coal Company, Exeter Mine, Welch, McDowell County, West Virginia, 10 August 1946
Photograph of President Truman in the Oval Office, conferring with labor leader Walter Reuther, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1952 December 12.
President Nixon with AFL–CIO President George Meany and Secretary of Labor George Shultz
