Today in 1918 A total of 86 passengers on a train carrying members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus are killed, another 127 injured in a wreck near Hammond, Ind. Five days later the dead are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Ill., in an area set aside as Showmen’s Rest, purchased only a few months earlier by the Showmen’s League of America.
• Teamsters restructure Freight Division • Target workers are joining the union wave • What’s your rate of inflation? • Emboldened labor movement seeks to expand on successes • The new labor movement is young, worker-led, and winning • Letter carriers union conducts annual food drive, Stamp Out Hunger May 14 • UPS surpasses Fedex for top spot of world’s largest transportation companies • Labor board says Starbucks unlawfully fired 7 for union efforts. • Inflation explained: The real reason prices are going up –
