This year's commemoration will be on Saturday, July 16th, from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., at Wilson Park (2900 Benton - corner of 29th Street and State Street), in Granite City, IL.
Speakers include Ed Sadlowski and Rosemary Feurer.
Musical acts include The Lodge Brothers and Union Electric.
St. Louis is home to the first general strike in United States history. In July of 1877, there was an enormous railroad strike across the country. But, when this strike hit East St. Louis, it turned into something more.
Workers in St. Louis and the Metroeast shut down all industries and ran only the bare essentials for to survive. These courageous workers went on strike for nearly a week before federal troops were brought in, equipped with St. Louis's famous "Veiled Prophet" to threaten the strikers with death, if they did not go back to work.
GSLUF commemorates this event every July by our event, "When the River City Was Red: Commemorate the General Strike of 1877". If you'd like to become involved, contact us at gsluf@gsluf.org.
Read the Labor Tribune's - St. Louis's AFL-CIO newspaper, the largest labor newspaper since 1937 - report on 2010's Commemoration: "Historian compares oppressive conditions today with those that sparked the 1877 strike in St. Louis".
Speakers include Ed Sadlowski and Rosemary Feurer.
Musical acts include The Lodge Brothers and Union Electric.
St. Louis is home to the first general strike in United States history. In July of 1877, there was an enormous railroad strike across the country. But, when this strike hit East St. Louis, it turned into something more.
Workers in St. Louis and the Metroeast shut down all industries and ran only the bare essentials for to survive. These courageous workers went on strike for nearly a week before federal troops were brought in, equipped with St. Louis's famous "Veiled Prophet" to threaten the strikers with death, if they did not go back to work.
GSLUF commemorates this event every July by our event, "When the River City Was Red: Commemorate the General Strike of 1877". If you'd like to become involved, contact us at gsluf@gsluf.org.
Read the Labor Tribune's - St. Louis's AFL-CIO newspaper, the largest labor newspaper since 1937 - report on 2010's Commemoration: "Historian compares oppressive conditions today with those that sparked the 1877 strike in St. Louis".