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.
• Michigan repeals its RTW-for-less law • Why workers are fighting to organize by industry • Doctor unions are good for your health • Child labor is not a relic of the past • Labor developments in the Rust Belt • NLRB nixes key parts of Trump-era union election rule • Roll over, Jimmy Hoffa: Lindsay Dougherty is the next Teamster icon • Senators propose tax reforms to level playing field between workers, employers • Veterans in Labor: How unions benefit from ex-soldiers in their ranks
