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32 relations: Anti-union violence in the United States, Appalachian music, Aunt Molly Jackson, Battle of Blair Mountain, Battle of Evarts, Benjamin Mandel, Caroline Decker, Coal Wars, Colorado Labor Wars, Don Whitehead, Florence Reece, Harlan Commercial District, Harlan County, Kentucky, Harry Simms (labor leader), History of Kentucky, Illinois coal wars, Jim Garland, Langston Hughes, Leo Wolman, List of labor slogans, List of strikes, List of worker deaths in United States labor disputes, May 1931, Molly Maguires, National Labor Relations Board, National Student League, Samuel Ornitz, Stellan Skarsgård, Theodore Dreiser, Timeline of labor issues and events, Vern Smith (journalist), Which Side Are You On?.
Anti-union violence in the United States
Anti-union violence in the United States is physical force intended to harm union officials, union organizers, union members, union sympathizers, or their families.
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Appalachian music
Appalachian music is the music of the region of Appalachia in the Eastern United States.
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Aunt Molly Jackson
Aunt Molly Jackson (1880 – September 1, 1960) was an influential American folk singer and a union activist.
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Battle of Blair Mountain
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and one of the largest, best-organized, and most well-armed uprisings since the American Civil War.
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Battle of Evarts
The Battle of Evarts (May 5, 1931) occurred in Harlan, Kentucky during the Harlan County Wars and lasted only one day.
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Benjamin Mandel
Benjamin Mandel (1887-August 8, 1973) AKA "Bert Miller" was a New York city school teacher and communist activist who later became a ex-communist director of research for the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SIS).
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Caroline Decker
Caroline Decker Gladstein (born Caroline Dwofsky, April 26, 1912 – May 17, 1992) was a labor activist in the 1930s in California.
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Coal Wars
The Coal Wars, or the Coal Mine Wars, were a series of armed labor conflicts in the United States, roughly between 1890 and 1930.
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Colorado Labor Wars
The Colorado labor wars were a series of labor strikes in 1903 and 1904 in the US state of Colorado, by gold and silver miners and mill workers represented by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM).
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Don Whitehead
Don Whitehead (April 8, 1908 in Inman, Virginia - January 12, 1981) was an American journalist.
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Florence Reece
Florence Reece (1900–1986) was an American social activist, poet, and folksong writer.
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Harlan Commercial District
The Harlan Commercial District is a primarily commercial historic district in downtown Harlan, Kentucky.
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Harlan County, Kentucky
Harlan County is a county located in southeastern Kentucky.
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Harry Simms (labor leader)
Harry Simms (December 25, 1911 – February 11, 1932), born Harry Simms Hersh, was a Jewish American labor leader from Springfield, Massachusetts.
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History of Kentucky
The prehistory and history of Kentucky spans thousands of years, and has been influenced by the state's diverse geography and central location.
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Illinois coal wars
The Illinois coal wars, also known as the Illinois mine wars and several other names, were a series of labor disputes between 1898 and 1900 in central and southern Illinois.
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Jim Garland
Jim Garland (April 8, 1905 – September 6, 1978) was a miner, songwriter, folksinger, and folk song collector from the coal mining country of eastern Kentucky, where he was involved with the communist-led National Miners Union (NMU) during the violent labor conflicts of the early 1930s called the Harlan County War.
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Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
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Leo Wolman
Leo Wolman (February 24, 1890 – October 2, 1961) was a noted American economist whose work focused on labor economics.
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List of labor slogans
This is a list of slogans used by organized labor, or by workers who are attempting to organize.
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List of strikes
The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work in an attempt to change their conditions in a particular industry or individual workplace, or in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized political campaign on a broader national or international level).
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List of worker deaths in United States labor disputes
The following list of worker deaths in United States labor disputes captures known incidents of fatal labor-related violence in U.S. labor history, which began in the colonial era with the earliest worker demands around 1636 for better working conditions.
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May 1931
The following events occurred in May 1931.
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Molly Maguires
The Molly Maguires was an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool and parts of the eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania.
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National Labor Relations Board
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent US government agency with responsibilities for enforcing US labor law in relation to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices.
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National Student League
The National Student League was a Communist led organization of college and high school students in the United States.
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Samuel Ornitz
Samuel Badisch Ornitz (November 15, 1890 – March 10, 1957) was an American screenwriter and novelist from New York City; he is notable as one of the "Hollywood Ten"Obituary Variety, March 13, 1957, page 63.
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Stellan Skarsgård
Stellan John Skarsgård (born 13 June 1951) is a Swedish actor.
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Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.
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Timeline of labor issues and events
Timeline of organized labor history.
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Vern Smith (journalist)
Vern Ralph Smith (born 1892, date of death unknown) was an American left wing journalist who served in an editorial capacity for several publications of the Industrial Workers of the World and the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).
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Which Side Are You On?
"Which Side Are You On?" is a song written in 1931 by Florence Reece, the wife of Sam Reece, a union organizer for the United Mine Workers in Harlan County, Kentucky.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_County_War
