Labor at the brink: The dynamited Frisco mine near Wallace, 1892; (right) capitalists blindfold labor in Harper's Weekly, 1901.

Unions organize “uprising of 20,000” in New York’s garment district. Railroad workers strike in Georgia.

Dynamite bomb damages Llewellyn Ironworks during bitter strike in Los Angles.

1911

One-hundred forty six workers, mostly women, die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in New York City. Worker safety regulations follow.

1912

National Guard breaks coal miner strike in West Virginia. Debs, running for President on the Socialist ticket, polls nearly 900,000.

1913

Massachusetts adopts minimum wage law for women and minors. IWW wins wage increase in textile strike.

1914

Company guards gun down striking workers at Colorado’s Ludlow Mine. Militiamen crush strike in Butte, Montana. Ford Motor Company raises basic wage to $5 for an eight-hour day.

Miner Joe Hill arrested, convicted, and later executed in Utah. Bomb kills 10 and injures 40 at union rally in San Francisco.

1917

Police brutalize striking workers, sack IWW headquarters, and murder labor leaders in Everrett, Washington. Vigilantes terrorize 1,185 strikers in Bisbee, Arizona. Mob lynches IWW organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana.

1918

Haywood convicted of violating federal sedition act by calling for a strike during wartime. He serves a year in Leavenworth prison.

1921

Haywood jumps bond, flees to Russia, joins Bolsheviks.

1928

Haywood dies in Moscow.

1954

Orchard dies in the Idaho State Penitentiary.

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