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We're out of work was clearly pointing to japan and anybody who looked japanese, and so to our group. >> that was the smoking gun. >> that was the smoking gun. he had race on his mind. >> armed with this new information, they mobilized. it was a rallying cry for equality that united asians of different backgrounds. >> east asian, south asian, waiters and laundry workers, engineers and doctors all coming together to say we are asian american, too. this is right outside of the federal building and it's not fair is what vincent chin said as he laid dying. and it was really something different to ...

The detailed official history of the strike, in which the city was taken over by the workers, by the History Committee of the General Strike Committee, March 1919 with a preface from Root and Branch in 1972.

Mr. evans say to mr. chin, because of you [ bleep ] we're out of work. >> that was never part of the police record or the investigation. and she said i heard, it's because of you mother f's that we are out of work, and was clearly pointing to japan and anybody that looked japanese. so to our group -- >> that was the smoking gun? >> that was the smoking gun. he had race on his mind. >> armed with this new information, they mobilized. it was a rallying cry for equality that united asuians of different backgrounds. >> waiters, and laundry workers. engineers and doctors. all coming together to say...

On Saturday hundreds of people, representing different unions, organizations, and labor campaigns, gathered at Union Square to celebrate May Day and later marched on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s Midtown mansion. May 1st, also known as  International Workers Day, is an official holiday in much of the world outside the United States. The holiday’s origins date back to the May 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago that saw police violently suppress the movement for an eight-hour work day. May Day virtually disappeared from the United States during the Cold War but was revived by the immigrant right...

Groundbreaking victory for Wash Supply workers By Mahoma López, LWC, and Yuriana Sanchez, LWC Leader On Jan. 29, the Laundromat Wash Supply workers scored a groundbreaking victory against their employer. For many years, the employees of Wash Supply have faced precarious working conditions at the workplace. The workers believed that the best tool they had to change the workplace was organizing and forming an independent labor association. In New York City and other parts of the country, the retail laundromat industry is plagued by precarious working conditions. Laundromat industry employees ...