Yesterday I drove a few hours west through howling wind and driving rain to the little town of Windber, Pennsylvania; a couple miles from Johnstown. The Pennsylvania Labor History Society and The Battle of Homestead Foundation were holding their “Annual Commemoration of the History of Working People” and despite the rough weather the basement hall at the Slovak Educational Club soon filled up with folks eager to hear a daylong program that included commemorating the United Mine Workers 1922-23 Windber strike for union recognition, discussions on “Women in Coal and Steel” and “John Brophy and Labor Education”. As folks sipped their hot coffee and munched on donuts, “Coal Miners’ Balladeer” Tom Breiding regaled them with labor songs.
- Chris Garlock
NOTE: the last speaker talking about her student days of organizing and diapering her children on the university president’s desk was not Bonnie Boyer but Amy Niehouse.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: The year was 1937. That was the day workers sat down at the Hershey chocolate plant in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com
Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
#LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #LaborHistory @wrkclasshistory @HomesteadFdn
Working Class Giant
Ludlow: My name is Louis Tikas (Encore)
Bitter Kisses for Labor
Tom Breiding’s songs of struggle
Erasing Virginia’s labor history
The Strange Career of “the Working Class”
Fred Redmond: “Why Labor History Is Important”
The Tractor Princess
Buffalo Soldier turned revolutionary
Celebrating Black History Month (Encore)
Domestic worker, Mother of the Movement
Reconciling a Slaveholding Past (Encore)
A meatpacker’s American dream
Bill Lucy on MLK; Shubert Sebree on Debs
Strong Winds and Widow Makers
The Cambridge Movement
“No Labor Dictators for Us”
A Working-Class Christmas Story Christmas
Red Jerseys in Detroit
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Irish Songs with Ken Murray
History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
The Rest Is History
Lore