March 21, 1927
–Shanghai workers launched an uprising, leading to the Shanghai
Commune. The Commune lasted until April 12, when it was crushed by
Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist troops with the help of Soviet arms,
advisers and money. (From the Daily Bleed)
March 21, 1965 –
3,200 people began the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to
protest racial violence. Earlier efforts to hold the march had failed
when police attacked demonstrators and a while minister was fatally
beaten by a group of Selma whites. The five-day walk ended March 26,
when 20,000 people joined the marchers in front of the Alabama state
Capitol in Montgomery. Soon after, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act
of 1965. (From Workday Minnesota)
March 21, 1970
– Day 2 of the national wildcat postal strike. In New York, an effigy
of Gus Johnson, president of the letter carriers' union local, was hung
at a meeting and the national union leaders were called "rats" &
"creeps." Despite the anti-strike clause in the postal workers contract
and federal injunctions against striking, postal workers walked out in
over 200 cities. (From the Daily Bleed)
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| Rosa Luxemburg |
January 15, 1919 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl
Liebnecht, were murdered by German police. (From the Daily Bleed)
January 15, 1929 - Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. was born on this date. King once said, "We look around every day and
we see thousands and millions of people making inadequate wages. Not only do
they work in our hospitals, they work in our hotels, they work in our laundries,
they work in domestic service, they find themselves unemployed. You see, no
labor is really menial unless you're not getting adequate wages." (FromWorkday
Minnesota)
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| Karl Liebknecht |
January 15, 1946 – 260,000 U.S. electrical
workers struck against General Electric, Westinghouse and General Motors. (From
the Daily Bleed)
January 15, 1978 -- The C.N.T., the Spanish
anarchist trade union, held a demonstration drawing 10,000 protesters in
Barcelona to oppose the Moncloa pact (which allowed only the communist C.C.O.O
and the socialist U.G.T the right to represent workers. (From theDaily Bleed)
January 15, 1997 –A general strike was called by
a coalition of South Korean labor unions. The unions claimed that 600,000
workers participated in the strike; the government claimed it was only 100,000. (From
the Daily Bleed)
March 21, 1927 –Shanghai workers launched an uprising, leading to the Shanghai Commune. The Commune lasted until April 12, when it was crushed by Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist troops with the help of Soviet arms, advisers and money. (From the Daily Bleed)
March 21, 1965 – 3,200 people began the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest racial violence. Earlier efforts to hold the march had failed when police attacked demonstrators and a while minister was fatally beaten by a group of Selma whites. The five-day walk ended March 26, when 20,000 people joined the marchers in front of the Alabama state Capitol in Montgomery. Soon after, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (From Workday Minnesota)
March 21, 1970 – Day 2 of the national wildcat postal strike. In New York, an effigy of Gus Johnson, president of the letter carriers' union local, was hung at a meeting and the national union leaders were called "rats" & "creeps." Despite the anti-strike clause in the postal workers contract and federal injunctions against striking, postal workers walked out in over 200 cities. (From the Daily Bleed)
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| Rosa Luxemburg |
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| Karl Liebknecht |
January 15, 1919 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebnecht, were murdered by German police. (From the Daily Bleed)
January 15, 1929 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date. King once said, "We look around every day and we see thousands and millions of people making inadequate wages. Not only do they work in our hospitals, they work in our hotels, they work in our laundries, they work in domestic service, they find themselves unemployed. You see, no labor is really menial unless you're not getting adequate wages." (From Workday Minnesota)
January 15, 1946 – 260,000 U.S. electrical workers struck against General Electric, Westinghouse and General Motors. (From the Daily Bleed)
January 15, 1978 -- The C.N.T., the Spanish anarchist trade union, held a demonstration drawing 10,000 protesters in Barcelona to oppose the Moncloa pact (which allowed only the communist C.C.O.O and the socialist U.G.T the right to represent workers. (From the Daily Bleed)
January 15, 1997 –A general strike was called by a coalition of South Korean labor unions. The unions claimed that 600,000 workers participated in the strike; the government claimed it was only 100,000. (From the Daily Bleed)
