Thursday, July 6, 1911. Taft saves from mining.

Labor unrest resulting in the National Guard being called out in Colorado.

Publisher Charles Curtis debuted a new version of the farmers' magazine Country Gentleman.

The magazine, whose covers have often appeared here, had declined down to 2,000 subscribers at the time.

An arbitration treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom was signed.

President Taft created the Devils Postpile National Monument in Madera County, California.  His doing so saved it from mining companies that were set to demolish the pillars in order to build a dam.

The current administration likely wouldn't lift a finger.

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Monday, July 3, 1911. Panther arrives.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, Agadir Crisis, Canada, Canada (New Brunswick), Disaster, French Empire, German Kriegsmarine, Labor unrest, Mexico, William Howard Taft

Monday, July 3, 1911. Panther arrives.

The SMS Panther arrived off of the coast of Agaidir.

A British merchant marine strike with the strikers largely prevailing in their demands.

Lightning struck the south-west comer of the Anglican Christ Church Cathedral in Fredericton, New Brunswick, rusling in a major fire doing damaged to the structure and causing its bells to fall.

It was restored.

William Howard Taft visited Marion, Indiana.

Gen. José González Salas, who had served in Diaz's army, was appointed Secretary of War and Navy of Mexico.

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Sunday, July 2, 1911. Krazy Kat debuts.

Labels: 1900s, 1903, 1910s, 1911, Cartoons, Central America, Colombia, Diplomacy, Interstate Commerce Commission, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Mexico (Juarez), Panama, Panama Canal, Railroads, United States

Saturday, May 25, 1946. Jordanian independence, Railroad strike ends.

Jordan achieved full independence.

Railroads and Railway workers signed an agreement at the White House averting a Federal seizure of the railroads.  Truman's order to take control was only three minutes away from implementation.

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Friday, May 24, 1946. Truman and the railroad strike.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, French Army, French Indochinese War, Harry S. Truman, Labor unrest, Laos, Railroads, Strike Wave of 1945-1946, Thailand

Friday, May 24, 1946. Truman and the railroad strike.

President Truman made a radio address promising that if railway workers had not returned to work by 4:00 p.m. May 25, he was going to seize control of the railroads.

 

The French Army crossed the Mekong into Thailand from Laos in pursuit of Communist forces. Both Communist troops and Thai forces clashed with them there.

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Thursday, May 23, 1946. Chick-fil-A.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Georgia, Georgia (Atlanta), restaurants and bars, Strike Wave of 1945-1946, The American Midwest, Weather

Sunday, May 19, 1946. Food protests in Japan.

Protests against the Japanese government occurred in the form of the People's Rally for Obtaining Food.

The news did appear in the Rocky Mountain News, but the aversion of a rail strike is what was on the front page.

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Friday, May 3, 1946. War Crime Trials in Tokyo and the Battle of Alcatraz

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Battle of Alcatraz, Cartoons, Japan (Tokyo), War Crimes, Work

Saturday, May 1, 1926. Things labor on May Day.

Ford Motors introduced the 40 hour workweek into American industry.  They reduced what had been a 48 hour workweek to that level, with no reduction in pay.

Five people were killed and 28 injured in May Day fighting between Polish Communists and Socialists.

A lot of Americans seem to be too dim to realize there's a difference between the two, but there is.

800,000 British coal miners were locked out.

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Friday, April 30, 1926. Bessie Coleman killed.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Aircraft, Ethnicities, Personalities, Women

Saturday, January 26, 1946. Taking over the packing plants.

It was Chinese New Year.

The Department of Agriculture took over 133 striking meat packing plants.

In the same issue of the Rocky Mountain News, Robert Ruark, famous for his hunting columns, had one about radio telephones.

The Sheridan Press also had a headline on the strike, without the same tone.

The same issue had this advertisement, showing how important equine power still was.

The SS Argentina departed from Southampton for New York with 452 war brides, 173 small children, and one "war bridegroom" married to a WAC.

French troops fought the Viet Quoc Armed Force, Vietnamese nationalist and socialist troops,  at Phong Thổ District. The French would prevail after a two day battle.

Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, whose army this was, was not a Communist party, and in fact it was suppressed by the Communists and many of its members went into exile following the Vietnamese War.

Bikini Atoll was chosen for nuclear tests by the U.S.

Film critic Gene Siskel was born on this day in Chicago.

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Friday, January 25, 1946. Soviet nuclear program gets s jump start.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Crime, Czechoslovakia, Douglas MacArthur, Dutch East Indies, Espionage, It was because of World War Two, Japan, Joseph Stalin, Nuclear power, Sudetenland, Sweden, Unions, USSR, Weapons, Wyoming

Monday, January 21, 1946. Steelworkers Strike.

Steel workers went out on strike in what became the largest strike in U.S. history.

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Sunday, January 20, 1946. De Gaulle resigns.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Charles de Gaulle, France, French Third Republic

Thursday, January 14, 1926. The Girl Who Went For A Ride In A Balloon.

African railway workers went on strike in Sierra Leone.

A total solar eclipse took place that was visible in the Southern Hemisphere from French Equatorial Africa, Sarawak and North Borneo (in Malaysia) and the Philippines. Scientists gathered in Sumatra to perform observational experiments, including an evaluation of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

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Saturday, January 9, 1926. A different train attack.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Art, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Norman Rockwell, U.S. Navy, Washington Naval Treaty

Thursday, December 2, 1875. Mine disaster and mine strike.

Today In Wyoming's History: December 2;  1905   Diamondville mine explosion killed 18 men.

A strike at the mines came to a conclusion in Rock Springs.

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Monday ,November 22, 1875. The death of Vice President Henry Wilson.

Labels: 1870s, 1875, 1877, Civil War, Colorado, Death, Free Soil Party, law, Native Americans, Politics, Republican Party, U.S. Grant, Ute, Whigs

Wednesday, November 21, 1945. UAE goes on strike.

The United Auto Workers went out on strike against General Motors.  They were seeking a 30% increase in wages and a hold on product prices.

General Motors currently has 162,000 employees.  The actual number of UAE GM workers that went on strike was 320,000.

The Sheridan Press noted the season:

Other cartoons for this edition:

Guatemala ratified the UN Charter.

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Tuesday, November 20, 1945. Commencement of the Nuremberg Trials.

Labels: 1940s, 1945, Blog Mirror, It was because of World War Two, Lester Hunt, Nazi Germany, Nazi Party, Nuremberg Trials, Pearl Harbor Hawaii, Post WWII Occupation of Germany, Tourism

Monday, September 24, 1945. Hirohito threw Tojo under the bus for Pearl Harbor. Elevator operators on strike.

Hirohito threw Tojo under the bus for Pearl Harbor.

Manhattan elevator operators went on strike.

It's odd to think of them going on strike.  They were common at the time, and were into the 1960s.  Now, of course, they're so rare that most people have never encountered one.

Miss Dorothy Eyster, an elevator operator at a downtown office building in Philadelphia, in 1943. The occupation had been considered a male one in the United States, but women broke into in increasing numbers during World War Two, although there were female elevator operators prior to that.  By the 1950s and 1960s, female elevator operators were common.  This photograph gives a good example of elevator controls of the period.

Related threads:

Mid Week At Work. Elevator Operators

Labels: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Conveyances, Mid-Week at Work, technology, The roles of men and women

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Sunday, September 23, 1945. A call to arms.

Labels: 1940s, 1945, 1945–1946 War in Southern Vietnam, British Empire, Egypt, French Empire, French Indochina, Sudan, Việt Minh, Vietnam

Friday, September 14, 1945. Strike!

The Great Strike Wave of 1945-1945 expanded as Ford Motors was idled due to wildcat strikes.

Contrary to the universal bliss myth so often assumed about the postwar world, the lid was coming off of labor relations as soldiers returned and wartime compromises, which oddly approached a sort of corporatism that fascist states had aspired to, ceased.  It was flying apart.

The Japanese garrison on Celebes surrendered at Manado.

The Government of Belgium announced a 17,000 man commitment to the occupation of Germany.

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Thursday, September 13, 1945. Start of the 1945–1946 War in Southern Vietnam,

Labels: 1940s, 1945, 1945–1946 War in Southern Vietnam, Battle of Dazhongji, Burma, Chinese Civil War, Falangism, French Army, French Indochina, Indian Army, Malayan Emergency, New Guinea, Spain, Việt Minh, Vietnam

Saturday, November 11, 1944. Ghastly Japanese losses at Ormoc Bay.

The Battle of Ormoc Bay began in the Camotes Sea off of the Philippines.  It would carry on well into December and result in disproportionate Japanese losses as they attempted to reinforce ground elements on Leyte.  On this day, four destroyers, 1 minesweeper and 5 transports carrying nearly 10,000 troops were sunk in heavy Japanese losses.

Iwo Jima was bombarded by the U.S.Navy.

Remaining German troops in Greece withdrew.

The Battle of Batina began in Croatia.

US troops in France.  Note many are wearing L. L. Bean style "Maine Hunting Shoes", which were adopted for cold weather use by the  U.S. Army.

The U-771 and U-1200 were sunk by the Royal Navy.

The 1942-44 musicians strike ended with RCA Victor and Columbia Records agreeing to union demands.

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Friday, November 10, 1944. The Explosion of the Mount Hood.

Labels: 1940s, 1944, boats and ships, China, Disaster, Imperial Japanese Army, Netherlands, New Guinea, Operation Ichi-Go, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, World War Two.

Tuesday, September 9, 1924. Waiting in the rain.

The League of Nations began drafting a plan to take over the supervision of German disarmament.

The Hanapēpē Massacre occurred on Kaua'i when a dispute broke out between police were called to a dispute at a labor striked and arrived with arrest warrants sparking resistance.  Sixteen Filipino laborers and four policemen were killed.

The US, UK Japan and Italy deployed troops in Shanghai as it appeared that a Chinese civil war was imminent.

President Coolidge, after waiting for four hours in the rain, met the aviators circumnavigating the world at Boling Field.

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Monday, September 8, 1924. Landing at Long Island. Beauties in Casper. Gunning down the mistress in Texas.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, Army, Crime, First Around The World Flight, Long Island New York, Monarchy, New York (Long Island), The relationship between men and women, U.S. Air Force, Women