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TODAY’S LABOR HISTORY

Harold Phillips | Published on 4/27/2026

1825: Boston carpenters lead the first strike for the 10 hour day.

1946: James Oppenheim’s poem “Bread and Roses” is published in the IWW newspaper “Industrial Solidarity.”

1953: President Dwight Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10450, listing “sexual perversion” as a condition for firing a federal employee and for denying employment to potential applicants.


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