Historian Erik Loomis on William Z. Foster, TUEL, and Communism within the US Labor Movement

by Justin | Aug 26, 2020 | Erik Loomis, Labor History

Follow Erik Loomis on Twitter Read Erik Loomis on Lawyers, Guns, & Money     Historian Erik Loomis on This Day in Labor History: August 26, 1922. The Trade Union Educational League under the leadership of William Z. Foster publicly met for the first...

Historian Erik Loomis on A. Phillip Randolph and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

by Justin | Aug 25, 2020 | Erik Loomis, Labor History

Follow Erik Loomis on Twitter Read Erik Loomis on Lawyers, Guns, & Money     Historian Erik Loomis on This Day in Labor History: August 25, 1925. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded. Led by A. Philip Randolph, this labor union became the...

Historian Erik Loomis on the Executions of Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti

by Justin | Aug 24, 2020 | Erik Loomis, Labor History

Follow Erik Loomis on Twitter Read Erik Loomis on Lawyers, Guns, & Money   Historian Erik Loomis on This Day in Labor History: August 23, 1927. Massachusetts executes Sacco & Vanzetti for the murder of two men in 1920. This trial and execution was the...

Historian Erik Loomis on Ada Brown and the Air Line Stewardesses Association

by Justin | Aug 22, 2020 | Erik Loomis, Labor History

Follow Erik Loomis on TwitterRead Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns, & Money  Historian Erik Loomis on This Day in Labor History: August 22, 1945. Five airline stewardesses, as they were then called, formed the Air Line Stewardesses Association. Let’s...

Historian Erik Loomis on William Sylvis and the National Labor Union

by Justin | Aug 20, 2020 | Erik Loomis, Labor History

Follow Erik Loomis on Twitter Read Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns, & Money     Historian Erik Loomis on This Day in Labor History: August 20, 1866. The National Labor Union, the first labor union federation in U.S. history, demanded Congress implement a...

Historian Erik Loomis on the Peterloo Massacre

by Justin | Aug 16, 2020 | Erik Loomis, Labor History

Follow Erik Loomis on Twitter Read Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns, & Money   Historian Erik Loomis on This Day in Labor History: August 16, 1819. British cavalry charged into a crowd of workers in Manchester, England who had gathered to demand parliamentary...