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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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