Today in Labor History June 20, 1943: Striking African American auto workers were attacked by the National Workers League, KKK, and other armed white workers at Detroit's Bell Isle amusement park. 34 people were killed and 1,800 arrested in these race riots (scores of whom were African American victims of racist violence). The U.S. army was brought in to restore order. 400,000 Southerners, black and white, had migrated to the Detroit area from 1941-1943 for work in the automotive industry, which had been converted to support the WWII effort, creating housing shortages and increasing pre-existing social tensions. Further exacerbating tensions were years of discrimination and police brutality against black workers. Earlier in 1943, there were race riots in Harlem, Los Angeles (Zoot Suit Riots), Texas and Alabama.

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Today in Labor History June 19, 1937: The Women's Day Massacre. During the Great Ohio Steel Strike of 1937, there were numerous street battles between workers and police, including the Youngstown Riots and Poland Avenue Riot on June 21st. On June 19th, there were smaller battles that some believe were initiated by the cops to test the likely extent of union resistance in a real fight. When the cops in Youngstown couldn't find any union leaders to beat up, they went after women picketers who were sitting in chairs to support the strike. They fired tear gas and, when the women refused to leave, began firing live rounds at them, killing 2. Over the course of the entire strike, police killed 16 workers, many of whom were shot in the back as they ran away.

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Today in Labor History June 18, 1984: The Battle of Orgreave occurred in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. One of the most violent police assaults on labor in British history, it was also a pivotal event in the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike. After several workers had been killed on the picket lines, the National Miners Union (NUM) organized 5,000 workers to picket at Orgreave. Riot police, with long shields and dogs, surrounded the picketers and charged them, beating them with clubs. 95 strikers were arrested and charged with rioting. However, the trials collapsed and all charges were dropped. In 1991, the police paid out £425,000 in compensation to 39 miners for assault, wrongful arrest, unlawful detention and malicious prosecution.

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Today in Labor History, June 18, 1935: The Battle of Ballantyne Pier occurred during a docker's strike in Vancouver, British Columbia, led by the International Longshoremen’s Association. Nearly 2000 relief camp workers had come to Vancouver on April 4. These unemployed men were protesting the conditions in the federal relief camps. They organized with the Workers' Unity League into the Relief Camp Workers' Union. Communists tried to merge the two strikes and spark a General Strike. Police and Shipping Bosses tried to spin it as an attempted West Coast Bolshevik revolution. On June 18, about 1000 strikers and their supporters marched towards Ballantyne Pier, where strikebreakers were unloading ships. Chief Constable Colonel W. W. Foster warned the demonstrators to halt. When they refused, police attacked them with clubs. Vancouver police, British Columbia Provincial Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police all participated in the assault. They continuing to club people even as they fled and fired tear gas at them. Many fought back, throwing rocks at the police. 28 were hospitalized. Police raided offices of communist and labor organizations.

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"Where is the outrage from these masked men about the disproportionate violence against women and girls? Why is there never any suggestion of vigilante justice against white men who kill the women they purport to love?"

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⚡️League of Legends isn't moving to Unreal, but it's heading for the biggest overhaul in its history.

Studio boss Andrey van Roon says the game will stay on Hextech. Under the League Next initiative Riot will ditch the forever-glitchy external client, merge all pieces into a single monolithic system, refresh the map visuals and make the new-player onboarding much simpler. Riot Games will reveal full details in autumn 2026 at the Wo...

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Today in Labor History June 13, 1914: A riot erupted at the Miner's Union Day parade in Butte Montana. Frustration and mistrust of the primary union, WFM, had been growing for decades. In 1914, miners were being paid only $3.50 a day, the same as in 1878, despite the fact that the price of copper had more than doubled in that same time period. Also, the WFM failed to get hundreds of Finnish miners reinstated after they were fired en masse, or to call a strike in support of these workers. Dissident union members, led by the IWW, accused WFM members of ballot stuffing and being in the pay of the copper bosses. They destroyed WFM headquarters, burned records and stole $1,600. Cops watched and laughed, but did nothing to stop the rioting. During the riot, acting mayor Frank Curran was pushed out of second-story window. And the home of P.K. Sullivan, a WFM official, was dynamited. Overall, however, the riot was a disaster for all the miners. The bosses exploited the conflict by recognizing no unions, making the Butte mines open shops, without any official union representation, from 1914 to 1934.

The conflict between the two unions went back many years. Two of the WFM’s best organizers, Big Bill Haywood and Vincent St. John, helped cofound the more radical IWW in 1905. Initially, the WFM affiliated with the IWW and became their mining section. However, many WFM didn’t like the radicalness of the IWW and later voted to unaffiliate. In 1908, St. John tried to organize a stealth takeover of the WFM, but failed. In 1911, the WFM affiliated with the conservative American Federation of Labor.

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Today in Labor History June 13, 1971: A Rebellion at Roosevelt Park, in Albuquerque, began after a young Chicano man was reportedly arrested for selling a joint to an undercover cop. Hundreds of hippies and Chicano youth were at the park for a concert that never took place. Las Gorras Negras (The Black Berets), a radical group that had organized to fight for Chicano safety against police violence, and for self-determination, tried to intervene, but the police shot at them, injuring several people. Outraged, hundreds of militant Chicano youth overturned cars, looted, threw Molotov cocktails, and destroyed buildings. The National Guard were ultimately called in to quell the rioting, which continued for days. 41 people were injured, at least 15 by gunfire. Fire‐bombs destroyed about $3 million worth of buildings and cars. During a 1967 uprising, the state used National Guards to round up protesters, including old women and children, herding them into a sheep bin, where they were kept under armed guard for hours without ever charging them with a crime.

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Today in Labor History June 13, 2010: World Cup employees in Durban, South Africa, went on strike over wage theft by employers. Roughly 500 workers reportedly marched through Moses Mabhida stadium, in Durban, after the game between Germany and Australia, throwing objects at the security manager’s office. Police responded by storming the stadium, firing tear gas, concussion grenades, and rubber bullets. Within 24 hours, the strike had spread to venues across South Africa, including Cape Town, where riot police attacked workers at Green Point Stadium, stranding fans outside. Hundreds of fans were also stranded in Johannesburg, after a game between Denmark and Netherlands, when bus drivers joined the strike.

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