Groups of Marching Figures on the Edward Cohen Plaque

Edward Cohen Plaque

Top (right to left):

1. 1834 Lowell mill girls “turnout” to protest wage cuts

2. 1835 Boston shipbuilders strike for “TEN HOUR DAY”

3. 1842 Bootmakers: “FREE PUBLIC EDUCATION”

4. 1860 Lynn shoemakers strike- female & male marchers, with tools

5. 1863 Emancipation: Freed black laborers (family)

6. 1869 Lynne, MA 1st convention of 1st national female labor union, Daughters of St. Crispin

7. 1874 Union Label 1st used by Cigar Makers International Union

“LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL”

8. 1888 1st Labor Day official state holiday

9.1885 Knights of Labor

“AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL”

10. 1886 Boston Building Trades strike: carpenters, bricklayers, painters

“8 HOUR DAY”

Center (left to right):

1.1900 AFL: “SUPPORT LIVING WAGE”

2. 1912 Singing immigrant workers:

(SOLIDARITY FOREVER)

3. 1913 Boston: Women’s Trade Union League founded

(END CHILD LABOR)

4. 1917 Massachusetts AFL endorses women’s suffrage

5. 1919 Telephone operators strike (female)

6. 1919 Boston police strike- 1st by public safety workers

“DEMAND THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE”

7. 1933 cranberry pickers strike (Cape Verdean field hands)

8. 1936 CIO formed

9. 1940: “WE DESERVE RETIREMENT SECURITY”

10. 1938 Fair Labor standards Act: Unions bring America the weekend

11. 1941: WWI women & black welders, grease monkeys, etc.

Bottom (right to left):

1. 1942 Boston firefighters organize

2. 1954 Colonial Provision Co. meatpackers strike:

“BLACK & WHITE UNITE”

3. 1955 AFL and CIO unite

4. 1963 A. Phillip Randolph speech at March on Washington:

“JOBS AND FREEDOM”

5. 1965 Food service, janitorial & building service organize

6. 1965 Nurses union begins collective bargaining

7. 1970 OSHA: “DEMAND JOB SAFETY”

8. 1978 Boston University librarians strike: “COLLECTIVE BARGAINING”

9. 1988 Hotel & restaurant workers strike

10. 1988 Building trades: “SAVE THE PREVAILING WAGE”