Today in labor history Apr 29 The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom was founded

[Omaha Steve]

April 29


Coxey’s Army of 500 unemployed civil war veterans reaches Washington, DC - 1894

When their demand that only union men be employed was refused, members of the Western Federation of Miners dynamited and destroyed the $250,000 mill of the Bunker Hill Company at Wardner, Idaho - 1899



April 29, 1915 - The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom was founded at The Hague. WILPF works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all. WILPF's first president, Jane Addams, founded and directed Hull House in Chicago for newly arrived immigrants.

Learn more at http://www.wilpf.org/US_WILPF


Labor history found here: http://www.biglabor.com/history.php & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_04_29_2009

[niyad]

1. thank you, as always, for your tireless efforts, and thank you for all the information

you present.

I had forgotten that today is not only my birthday, but that of the WILPF as well.

[dcsmart]

2. absolutely...knowing our history is power..