Today in Labor History Aug 30 FDR's Wealth Tax Act increases taxes on rich citizens and big business

[Omaha Steve]

August 30

August 30, 1834 - Union delegates from New York, Boston, Philadelphia and other East Coast cities met in convention to form the National Trades Union. The NTU united craft unions to oppose "the most unequal and unjustifiable distribution of the wealth of society in the hands of a few individuals." Active for only a few years, the NTU nonetheless helped spawn the organization of more than 60 new unions.

President Franklin Roosevelt's Wealth Tax Act increases taxes on rich citizens and big business, lowers taxes for small businesses - 1935

OSHA publishes scaffold safety standard, designed to protect 2.3 million construction workers and prevent 50 deaths and 4,500 injuries annually - 1996

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_08_30_2010

[burnsei sensei]

1. To suppress the teaching of American labor

history is to disempower the American people.

[billlll]

2. unionized pay 20 or 25 % higher?

That inclds benefits?