On this day in Labor History the year was 1912. That was the day that labor activist, Mother Jones, led a march of miners’ children through the streets of Charleston, West Virginia. Her aim was to illustrate the effects of poverty.
October 9 - Mary Ann Shadd Cary is Born
October 8 - Locked Out and Ready to Fight
October 7 - Remembering Joseph Labadie
October 6 - Fannie Lou Hamer is Born
October 5 - Labor Candidates Step Up
October 4 - Truman Seizes the Nation’s Oil Refineries
October 3 - The Father-Son Strike
October 2 - Striking for a Future
October 1 - Molding the Future
September 30 - Homestead Strikers Tried for Treason
September 29 - Murdered in Estevan
September 27 - Uprising of the 20,000
September 28 - The Journey Toward Equal Treatment
September 26 - Shays’ Rebellion
September 25 - Lewis Hine is Born
September 24 - The Build of the Supreme Court
September 23 - The Nixon Plan in Philadelphia
September 22 - A Pepperoni Pizza and a Union
September 21 - The March of Mother Jones
September 20 - Upton Sinclair is Born
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