Show STEADY PROGRESSION OF LABOR MOVEMENT From Exceedingly Sm Small Beginning I Some Somo Six Seventy Years Ago OrganIzatIon Organization Or Or- of f Workers Has Spread I to Magnificent Proportions While separate labor unions had I their beginning In America early In Inthe I the last century the first combination I of at societies of ot workIngmen on tills this side I of at the Atlantic probably dates from 81 87 years ago when hen the general trades trade I unions of ot the city cUy of ot New York had hadan lui I an organization meeting Organization among American laborers laborers labor labor- ers began I In iii 1803 when the ship carpenters carpenters car cat penters and caulkers of ot New York and Boston organized The tailors of o New York formed a union the same sam year and 1803 also witnessed the first t Industrial strike In America when th the New York sailors refused to work Before that however hoever tl there ere had had been beet 1 I J J 1 l labor abor disturbances among the bakers of ot New York and the boot and shoe makers of l Philadelphia It was durIng dur dur- ing ag the tho sailors sailors' strike of 1803 the Massachusetts shipbuilders shipbuilders' strike of ot 1817 and the Albany printers' printers strike of 1820 that the terms rat and scab were first used From From local unions the organization of ot labor t progressed until In 1850 the first In in- n- n labor union that of at the printers was launched The fil first t martyrs to trades I unIonIsm unionIsm union union- Ism sun were thrown Into Jail jaU at die England 77 years ears ago ngo They were James and George Gcorge Lovelace Thomas Stanfield d James John Stanfield and q 1 UA The Tile first three men were Wesleyan preachers who worked farm as laborers on week days and preached the tue I Gospel on Sundays |