Labor Strikes

The Pecan Shellers Strike was one of San Antonio’s largest labor actions. It involved approximately 12,000 pecan shellers who walked off the job to protest wage cuts and unsafe, unventilated workrooms in the city’s shelling industry. On January 31, 1938, Mexican American women shellers demanded…

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Idaho mine war broke into flame in 1892 and cast a glare with very long shadows</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">BLOOD FLOWED IN THE PERENNIALLY TROUBLESOME COALFIELDS IN 1921, WHEN THOUSANDS OF MINERS DECIDED THEIR RIGHT TO ORGANIZE WAS WORTH FIGHTING FOR</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The great sit-down strike that transformed American industry</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">One of the country’ more bizzarre labor disputes pitted a crowed of outraged newsboys against two powerful opponents: Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolf Hearst.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">When copper-country miners went on strike, the owners brought thugs from the slums of New York to northern Michigan. The struggle led to an event that killed a city.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">HISTORY’S MOST PHOTOGENIC LABOR dispute lasted 30 days, spread to eight cities, closed 37 plays, and finally won performers some respect.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A never-before-seen report reveals just how fragile our great cities were, and remain.</span></p>

<p>The nation was torn apart by disastrous riots in a hundred cities and towns, with lasting results.</p>