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Cook, Bernard A. (1983). "The Typographical Union and the New Orleans General Strike of 1892". Louisiana History. 24 (4). Filippelli, Ronald L. (1990). Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland. ISBN 0-8240-7968-X. Foner, Philip S. (1955). History of the Labor Movement in the United States. Vol. 2: From the ...
Rick Halpern, "Organized Labor, Black Workers, and the Twentieth Century South: The Emerging Revision" in Race and Class in the American South since 1890, eds. Melvyn Stokes and Rick Halpern (Berg: 1994). Eric Arnesen (1987) "To rule or ruin: New Orleans dock workers' struggle for control 1902–1903," Labor History, 28:2, 139–166.
The union continued to exist as a shell until 1914, but the mills were never organized by the labor unions. This set the stage for further anti-unionism in the oil fields of Louisiana and east Texas. By the end of 1921, the Piney Woods of Louisiana and Texas had been completely cut down, ending a 30-year boom for west Louisiana and east Texas.
The Thibodaux Massacre was an episode of white supremacist violence that occurred in Thibodaux, Louisiana on November 23, 1887. It followed a three-week strike during the critical harvest season in which an estimated 10,000 workers protested against the living and working conditions which existed on sugar cane plantations in four parishes: Lafourche, Terrebonne, St. Mary, and Assumption.
Colored National Labor Union founded. [18] Uriah Stephens, pre-1882. Stephens (1821 - 1882) was a U.S. labor leader. He led nine Philadelphia garment workers to found the Knights of Labor in 1869, a more successful early national union. 1869 (United States) Uriah Smith Stephens organized a new union known as the Knights of Labor. [18] 1869 ...
A plurality of Americans believed labor unions mostly helped the companies where workers are unionized by a 48–44 margin. A plurality of Americans believed labor unions mostly helped state and local governments by a 47–45 margin. A plurality of Americans believed labor unions mostly hurt the US economy in general by a 49–45 margin.
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The Brotherhood of Timber Workers (BTW) (1910–1916) was a union of sawmill workers, farmers, and small business people primarily located in East Texas and West Louisiana, but also had locals in Arkansas (7) and Mississippi (1). [1] The BTW was organized in 1910 by Arthur Lee (A.L) Emerson and Jay Smith as an industrial union.