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On this day in Labor History the year was 1934.
That as the day that the bank robber known as Pretty Boy Floyd was gunned down by federal agents in Ohio.
He was born Charles Arthur Floyd in 1904 in Georgia.
His family moved to Oklahoma when he was a boy.
Like many Oklahomans during this era, he fell on hard economic times.
Floyd turned ...
On this day in Labor History the year was 2001.
That was the day that Thomas Morris Jr. died from breathing in anthrax.
A week earlier he had been exposed to the deadly poison when an envelope containing the powdery substance was opened at the mail distribution center where he worked.
Thomas Morris was a member of American Postal Workers Union.
On this day in Labor History the year was 1926.
That was the day that one of the great labor leaders in U.S. history, Eugene V. Debs, died in Elmhurst, Illinois.
In 1894, Debs gained national attention when his American Railway Union launched a boycott in support of the striking workers of Pullman Palace Car Company.
The strike and the boycott were cru...
On this day in Labor History the year was 2013.
That was the day that two workers on California’s Bay Area Rapid Transit, or BART as it is more commonly called, were struck and killed by a train.
Christopher Sheppard was a BART track engineer.
Laurence Daniels was a contract employee.
Both men had years of experience working on the tracks.
...On this day in Labor History the year was 1945.
That was the day that Paul Robeson received the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP.
The award was given annually to the African American with the “highest achievement.”
Robeson certainly fit that criteria.
He was born in Princeton, New Jersey.
He attended Rutgers University, where he was an ath...