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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-01-08 02:31 PM
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Today in labor history Oct 31 Tennessee sends in convict laborers to break a coal miners strike

October 31

Tennessee sends in leased convict laborers to break a coal miners strike in Anderson County. The miners revolted, burned the stockades, and sent the captured convicts by train back to Knoxville - 1891

Int’l Alliance of Bill Posters, Billers & Distributors of the United States & Canada surrendered AFL-CIO charter and disbanded - 1971

October 31, 2002 - The Minnesota AFL-CIO endorsed Walter Mondale for U.S. Senate, to run in place of Paul Wellstone, who was killed six days earlier in a plane crash.
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