Labor stories pictures in Nineteenth 19th and Twentieth 20th century United States World of Work Labor stories over the Centuries America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894 - 1915 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/awlhome.html   Austin at Work http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/ahc/work/   Belonging: A Century Celebrated (Australia) http://www.belonging.org   Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops 1820 - Present http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/index.htm   The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 http://digital.library.arizona.edu/bisbee/index.php   Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives of the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1938 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html   Bridgeport Working: Voices from the 20th Century http://www.bridgeporthistory.org/mast.cfm Canadian Labour History 1850 - 1999 (Canada in English or French) http://www.civilization.ca/hist/labour/lab01e.html   The Cariboo Gold Rush (Canada in English) http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cariboo/   Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair 1886 - 1887 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ichihtml/hayhome.html   Central Pacific Railroad: Photographic History Museum http://cprr.org   Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory http://www.emji.net/bamberger/index.html   The Cradle of Collective Bargaining: History of Labour and Technology In Hamilton and District (Canada in English) http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~cradle/   The Dramas of the Haymarket http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas Fighters on the Farm Front: Oregon's Emergency Farm Labor Service 1943-1947 http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/osu/osuhomepage.html   Fly Girls http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/   Forced Labor Camps: On-Line Exhibition (Central Europe in English) http://www.osa.ceu.hu/gulag   The Great North Road Convict Trail http://www.convicttrail.org   History of the Canadian Automobile Worker (Canada in English) http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cau/index.html   History of Mining in Cape Breton (Canada in English) http://collections.ic.gc.ca/coal/   Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html   La Causa: A History of the United Farm Workers union Huelga http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/ufw.html   Labor and the Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Anti-Nazi Struggle http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/exhibits/tam/JLC/opener.html   Life on the Goldfields (Australia) http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/slv/exhibitions/goldfields/   Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World http://www.ibiblio.org/sohp/   Los Angeles at Work 1920 - 1939 http://www.lapl.org/photo/laatwork Lost Labor http://www.lostlabor.com   Paris Commune 1871 (Australia) http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/pariscommune/index.html   Slaves and the Courts, 1740 - 1860 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/sthome.html   Steun! Stem! Staak! (Netherlands in Nederlands) http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/affiche   Still Cookin' by the Fireside: African Americans in Food Service http://anacostia.si.edu/food/index.htm   Transcontinental Railroad http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/index.html   The Triangle Factory Fire http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/   U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906 - 1971 http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/steel/   Virtual Prostitution Museum http://www.realm-of-shade.com/meretrix/museum   Voices from the Dust Bowl http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html   Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology Through American History http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/whole_cloth/   The Work House (UK) http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/homepage.html   Working in Patterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wiphtml/   The WTO History Project http://depts.washington.edu/wtohist/Project/About_Project.htm   Zwangsarbeit: Hagen 1939-1945 (Germany in German, English, or Russian) http://hco.hagen.de/zwangsarbeit   1920 - The Battle of Matewan www.matewan.com/History/battle2.htm 1911 - Triangle Shirtwaist Fire www.csun.edu/~ghy7463/mw2.html 1894 Chicago - Pullman Strike www.cc.ukans.edu/kansas/pullman 1937 Flint Sitdown Strike http://community-2.webtv.net/uhhuhdotcom/diaryofasitdowner/ WALTER REUTHER: "There are many practical jobs ahead, jobs that will test the best that is in all of us. There is the job of organizing the unorganized. No union, no movement that rests upon past achievements will have the drive and the energy and the power without which we cannot succeed. We must recapture the crusading spirit we had in the early days, and we need to take on some of the areas of the unorganized and begin to do the kind of job that I know we are capable of doing if we pull together in the days ahead. But, our job is more than just organizing the unorganized. I think if we are going to be realistic, we must recognize the fact that when you sign up a worker in a union and he pays his dues, his obligation and his responsibilities do not end there. They just begin. All of our unions have too many people who are just card-carrying members. They pay their dues. They come to a meeting occasionally. Yes, they walk the picket lines when they are called. We have the job, not only to organize the unorganized, but we have the job of educating and unionizing the organized. We need to give our members a sense of participating in a great human crusade. We need to make them conscious of the fact that the free labor movement for the first time in the history of human civilization is trying consciously to give direction in the shaping of history. We are trying to participate in the great social changes that are taking place in the world in which we live. When you belong to a union, when you understand where we are going and how we hope to get there, what tools free people have to use in the building of that better world that we dream about, then you have the satisfaction of knowing that as a free human being you have something to say about the kind of tomorrow that your children will grow up in. Until we do a better job of educating and unionizing the people whom we have organized, we will not have mobilized the real potential power and the spiritual strength of our great, free labor movement." December 4, 1952... Address of Walter Reuther accepting the Presidency of the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Atlantic City, New Jersey! These words still ring true 47 years later!! This was a man of vision!! Before The Union We hear brothers and sisters in the union workplace continually ask, "What has the union ever done for me.?" Before the union, the word was "No!" NO Names - just a number NO Seniority NO Job Security NO Representation NO Grievance procedure NO Promotional Opportunities NO Job classifications NO Health & Safe program NO Protective equipment NO Preference of shift NO Relief periods NO Work standards NO Uniform pay scale NO Guaranteed wage increases NO Cost-of-living raises NO Overtime pay after eight hours NO Time and a half on Saturday NO Double time on Sunday NO Triple time for holidays NO Shift premiums NO Call-in pay NO Rotation of premium time NO Paid holidays NO Paid Vacations NO Paid absence allowance NO Moving allowance NO Bereavement pay NO Jury Duty pay NO Military duty pay NO Paid-up life insurance NO Sickness & Accident benefits NO Medical protection NO Layoff disability benefits NO Guaranteed income stream NO S.U.B. NO Short work week benefits NO Severance pay NO Pensions NO Prescription drugs NO Tuition refund. That's what life in the plant was like, before the UAW turned the "No" To "YES". Let's Remember, management did NOT give you these benefits. A strong union and its members bargained and fought hard for them. Remember,our union is only as effective as the brothers and sisters who support it. So, let's start to play a more active role in our union and give it more support. BACK TO PAGE ONE http://community-2.webtv.net/uhhuhdotcom/uhhuh/

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