Today in Labor History June 3, 1900: The International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) was founded. In 1909, they led the Uprising of 20,000, a 14-wk strike sparked by a walkout at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, that led to a General Strike. Management used thugs to brutally beat the women, while police looked the other way. In 1910, they led an even bigger strike, The Great Revolt, of 60,000 cloak-makers. The Triangle Shirtwaist fire, in 1911, prompted many more women to join the union. In 1919, many members left to join the Communist Party. Many of those who remained were anarchists with dual membership in the radical IWW. They challenged the autocratic leadership of the ILGWU. The 1920s was marred by sectarian battles between left- and right-wing factions and violence by hired gangsters. Ironically, it was Arnold Rothstein (the Jewish gangster who created the Black Sox scandal, and who mentored Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano) who got the gangsters to withdraw from the union.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #union #strike #ilgwu #IWW #TriangleShirtwaist #mafia #LuckyLuciano #GeneralStrike #communism #anarchism

#OTD in 1930: Salvatore #LuckyLuciano Lucania and Giuseppe #JoeTheBoss #Masseria - #NewYork #Mafia leaders = were arrested together at a #MiamiBeach Florida hotel. #NYC #MafiaHistory #Histodons
Read about it here:
https://mafiahistory.us/a039/f_luckyandboss.html

#OTD in 1946: Authorities moved #Mafia leader Salvatore #LuckyLuciano Lucania from Sing Sing Prison to Ellis Island in preparation for his deportation to Italy. #Lucania had served about ten years of a 30- to 50-year sentence for compulsory prostitution. #NewYork Gov. #Dewey commuted the remainder of the sentence, believing Lucania had been of some sort of service to the U.S. military during #WWII. #MafiaHistory #Histodons
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2020/02/lucky-out-of-prison-held-at-ellis-island.html

#OTD in 1962: Former #NewYork #Mafia leader Salvatore #LuckyLuciano Lucania died of an apparent heart attack at Capodichino Airport outside Naples, Italy. #MafiaHistory #Histodons
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2019/01/awaiting-airport-arrival-lucky-departs.html

#OTD in 1946: #NewYork Governor Thomas Dewey commuted the compulsory prostitution prison sentence of #Mafia boss Salvatore (Charlie #LuckyLuciano ) Lucania on the condition that Lucania "be deported forthwith."
#MafiaHistory #Histodons #NYC
Read more about Lucky's extended time behind bars and deportation:
https://mafiahistory.us/a004/f_prisonlucky.html#1946

Many believe that #OTD in 1946, U.S. #Mafia bosses gathered at #Havana for a massive convention presided over by Salvatore #LuckyLuciano Lucania (with entertainment by Frank #Sinatra). But, it turns out... probably not.
#MafiaHistory #Histodons
https://mafiahistory.us/a045/f_havanaconvention.html

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Little remembering of those magik days together .
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