EPISODE · Jun 12, 2026 · 1 MIN
June 12 - Chicago, Hog Butcher for the World
from Labor History in 2:00 · host The Rick Smith Show
On this day in Labor History the year was 1904. That was the day that 18,000 workers in the Chicago’s stockyards went out on strike. Work in the stockyards was often brutal and dangerous. Thousands of workers toiled in the yards, many of them immigrants from Eastern Europe.
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