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November 17, 2025

Today in 1900
Martin Irons dies near Waco, Texas. Born in Dundee, Scotland, he emigrated to the U.S. at age 14. He joined the Knights of Labor and in 1886 led a strike of 200,000 workers against the Jay Gould-owned Union Pacific and Missouri railroads. The strike was crushed, Irons was blacklisted and he died broken-down and penniless. Said Mother Jones: “The capitalist class hounded him as if he had been a wild beast.”

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The Longest Current Strike in America May Be Over
Updated On: Nov 17, 2025
Nov. 17, 2025 | STRIKES | (Click image to enlarge.) After more than three years on strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and five years of overall corporate violation of labor law, The News Guild of Pittsburgh, TNG-CWA Local 38061, completely won its case against the Block brothers, the paper’s owners. Writing on Nov. 10 for a unanimous panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, Judge Cindy Chung—the former U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, headquartered in Pittsburgh—ordered the Blocks to bargain and reach a contract with the Guild, just as the National Labor Relations Board demanded in seeking an injunction, a mandatory court order, against the duo. … [News Guild President Jon] Schleuss didn’t go quite as far this time in praising Chung’s decision, but he said it should send a tough message to other corporate chieftains who defy and break labor law against their workers. People's WorldPHOTO/STEVE MELLON, PITTSBURG UNION PRESS (workers’ strike paper)
 
 
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