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Index: Labor Unions
Oct 17,
1919
Striking Steel Workers Seek to Enjoin Police from Interfering with Meetings
Aug 12,
1923
Report Condemns Violations of Rights of Miners in Coal Fields
May 8,
1925
A. Philip Randolph Organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
May 14,
1928
Roger Baldwin’s Conviction Overturned by New Jersey High Court
Feb 23,
1930
ACLU Calls for End to Private, Anti-Union Police in Pennsylvania
Mar 23,
1932
Organized Labor Gains First Amendment Rights
May 12,
1932
Judge to Accompany ACLU Leaders in West Virginia Coal Area to Protect Them
Jan 23,
1934
ACLU Attorney A. L. Wirin Kidnapped, Beaten in California
Jul 5,
1935
Wagner Act: Labor Gains First Amendment Rights, Right to Organize
Jun 6,
1936
Senate Launches Investigation of Violations of Free Speech and Rights of Labor
Jun 13,
1937
“Cradle Will Rock” Defies Government Censorship, Opens in Different Theater
May 19,
1938
ACLU Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays Evicted From Jersey City
Aug 6,
1938
Top Labor Union Lawyer Denounces American Bar Association
Jun 5,
1939
Freedom of Assembly! Supreme Court Rules in Famous “Hague” Case
Jan 8,
1945
Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Restriction on Labor Union Organizing
Jun 23,
1947
Congress Overrides Truman Veto, Passes Taft-Hartley “Slave-labor Bill”
Oct 3,
1967
Yes, This Land Really IS Your Land: Woody Guthrie Dies
Apr 13,
1970
Nine Women’s Liberation Activists Arrested for Sit-in at Grove Press, Pioneering Anti-Censorship Publisher
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