Saturday, July 20, 2013

On this date in Minnesota history: July 20

July 20, 1907 – “Tired of ethnic discrimination as well as dangerous working conditions, low wages, and long work days, immigrant iron miners on the Mesabi Range in northeastern Minnesota went on strike on [this date]. Their strike lasted only two months before it was suppressed with strikebreakers, but it was notable for being the first organized strike on the state's Iron Range.”

http://www.mnopedia.org/event/mesabi-range-strike-1907

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