All posts tagged "labor unions"
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4.0KMassachusettsMario Buda, The Other Boston Bomber
On Sept. 16, 1920, an Italian immigrant named Mario Buda parked his horse-drawn wagon across from J.P. Morgan and Co. and down...
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3.7KConnecticutBridgeport Elects a Socialist Mayor Again and Again and Again
Bridgeport, Conn., elected for 24 years a socialist mayor named Jasper McLevy, beloved in the city despite his friendship with a notorious...
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2.6KNew HampshireLouis de Rochemont: The New Hampshire Moviemaker Who Took on Hitler in 1938 and Won
Louis de Rochemont had a bone to pick in 1938. In the 1930s, American attitudes toward Nazi Germany and Adolph Hitler were...
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15.2K8Business and LaborSix Irish Landmarks in New England
Irish landmarks commemorate the history of Irish immigrants in places you might not expect throughout New England. There’s more to Irish-American history...
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9.2K6MassachusettsA 27-year-old Woman Died in a 1913 Ipswich Mill Strike; She Never Did Get Justice
On June 10, 1913 a long simmering Ipswich mill strike was grinding onward. For weeks seven hundred mostly Greek workers at the...
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19.5K8Business and LaborEmma Nutt, The World’s 1st Woman Telephone Operator
When Emma Nutt reported for work at the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston on Sept. 1, 1878, she became the...
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7.5K16Politics and MilitaryCalvin Coolidge Takes the Oath of Office by the Light of a Kerosene Lamp
Calvin Coolidge, vice president of the United States, was vacationing with his wife at his family’s homestead in Plymouth Notch, Vt., on...
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4.2K5Business and LaborThe 1933 New Haven Garment Workers Strike
In 1933, a poor Italian-American teenager led the dramatic New Haven garment workers strike that lifted thousands of women out of poverty....
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