Today in labor history June 21, 10 were hanged in Pennsylvania, 3 civil rights workers disappear Ms.

[Omaha Steve]

In England, a compassionate parliament declares that children can't be required to work more than 12 hours a day. And they must have an hours' instruction in the Christian Religion every Sunday and not be required to sleep more than two in a bed - 1802


June 21, 1877 - Ten miners, allegedly members of the Molly Maguires and convicted as murderers, were hanged in Pennsylvania. Historians question whether the Molly Maguires, allegedly a secret miners’ organization, actually existed. Decades after the hangings, the Molly Maguires became familiar to millions of moviegoers through a film by the same name starring Richard Harris and Sean Connery.

June 21, 1964 - Civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner disappeared near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Federal agents eventually found their mangled bodies; Klansmen and Mississippi police had kidnapped the activists and beaten them to death with clubs and chains.

100,000 unionists and other supporters march in solidarity with striking Detroit News and Detroit Free Press newspaper workers - 1997

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history/159 & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_06_21_2009

[Riley18]

1. My mother's great grandfather, Pat Doolan, was shot and killed leaving

a union meeting (Molly Maguires) by an anti-union (coal mine owners) thug.