The Flint sit-down strike represented a shift in union organizing strategies from craft unionism (organizing white male skilled workers) to industrial unionism (organizing all the workers in an industry). The sit-down strike changed the balance of power between employers and workers.
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Months of organizing work by 16-year-old Pauline Newman culminated in the start of the largest rent strike in New York City’s history.
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The Italian Hall disaster killed 73 people, 59 of them children, from families of striking copper miners.
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The Palmer Raids began in November of 1919 and targeted suspected radical leftists, especially anarchists, and deported them from the United States.
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Joseph James Ettor, Arturo Giovannitti, and Joseph Caruso were acquitted after one of the most important labor trials.
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The “Hollywood 10” directors, producers, and writers who refused to testify at HUAC were held in contempt of Congress.
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Between 30-60 striking Black Louisiana sugarcane workers were massacred.
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The Bogalusa Labor Massacre was an attack on interracial labor solidarity in Louisiana.
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The state of Utah executed Joe Hill, labor organizer, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
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Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly began a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
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A disaster in the Cherry Mine in Cherry, Illinois, killed 259 boys and men.
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Thirty thousand factory and dock workers staged the 1892 New Orleans general strike.
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