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Omaha Steve

(103,510 posts) Tue Nov 24, 2015, 08:45 PM Nov 2015

11-24-15 Cigar Makers Unionize in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/november-24-cigar-makers-unionize/

November 24, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1875. That was the day that Samuel Gompers founded the Cigar Makers’ International Union Local 144 in New York City. The very first Cigar Marker’s Union local had been established in Baltimore in 1851 by craftsmen who opposed importation of lower-paid laborers from Germany.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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