US Labor History
1910-1919
1910
- Bethlehem Steel Strike
- Cloakmakers' Strike
- Chicago Clothing Workers' Strike, led by fiften year old Bessie Noramowitz
- Los Angeles strike wave
- Philadelphia General Strike
1911
- US Supreme Court, in Gompers v. Bucks Stove and Range Company, upholds an injunction
ordering the AFL to remove the company from its unfair list and cease a boycott.
- Fire kills 146 workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City.
- Illinois Central and Harriman Lines Rail Strike begins
- Southern Lumber Operators' Lockout begins
1912
- President Woodrow Wilson elected
- Massachusetts adopt the first minimum wage act for women and minors.
- Chicago Newspaper Strike
- Fur Workers' Strike
- IWW Free-Speech Fight in San Diego, California
- Lawrence, Massachusetts, Textile Strike, twenty thousand textile workers representing 26
different nationalities win the 60 day "Bread and Roses" strike
- Louisiana Timber Workers' Strike begins
- New York City Hotel Strike
- Pain Creek and Cabin Creek, West Virginia, Mine Strikes
1913
- US Department of Labor established
- Ludlow, Colorado, Massacre
- Machinists Strike and Boycott
- Michigan Copper Strike
- Paterson, New Jersey, Textile Strike
- Rubber Workers' Strike
- Studebaker Motors Auto Workers' Strike
- Wheatland, California, Hop Riot
1914
- Congress passes the Clayton Antitrust Act. Ostensibly limits the use of injuctions in
labor disputes
- Amalgamated Clothing Workers founded
- Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Strike begins
- Company gunmen attack a tent colony of striking UMWA families in Colorado and kill 19
men, women, and children in the Ludlow Massacre
1915
- Congress passes the LaFollette Seamen's Act - regulates working conditions for seamen
- Standard Oil Strike
- Youngstown, Ohio, Steel Strike begins
- Joe Hill , IWW union organizer, executed in Salt Lake City on trumped up murder charge
1916
- Congress passes Federal Child Labor Law - later declared unconstitutional
- Congress passes the Adamson Act establishing the eight-hour day for railroad workers
- Six killed and forty wounded in bombing of San Francisco preparedness parade - labor
leaders arrested
- American Federation of Teachers founded
- Arizona Copper Strike
- Everett, Washington, Massacre
- Minnesota Iron Range Strike
- New York City Transit Strike
- New York Cloakmakers' Strike
- San Francisco Open Shop Campaign
- Standard Oil Strike
1917
- United States enters World War I
- Supreme Court, in Hitchman Coal and Coke v. Mitchell, upholds the legality of yellow-dog
contracts
- Green Corn Rebellion in Oklahoma
- Tom Mooney sentenced to death for role in San Francisco preparedness parade bombing in
- Bisbee, Arizona, Miners' Strike
- Butte, Montana, Miners' Strike
- East St. Louis Race Riot
- Pacific Northwest Lumber Strike
1918
- War Labor Board is created
- World War I ends
- First national conference of women trade unionists
1919
- Huge postwar strike wave sweeps across the nation
- Communist Party of America founded
- Red Scare begins
- Actors' Strike
- Boston Police Strike
- Centralia, Washington, Massacre
- Chicago Race Riot
- New England Telephone Strike
- Seattle General Strike
- 16,000 Silk Workers in Paterson, NJ strike for a shorter workweek
- Steel Strike
- Winnepeg General Strike in Canada
