To Organize the Unorganized
Posted by Eileen Cooper on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on To Organize the Unorganized The year 1919 was marked by an explosion of activity in the American labor movement. Discontent surged among industrial workers as promises of wage increases and improved working conditions, made by employers during World War One, failed to materialize. Telegraph operators, theater ushers and textile workers joined firemen, policemen and dock workers to oppose some of the country’s most...read more