This semester we are going to kick off a new series called: Milwaukee Press Club Mondays. The Milwaukee Press Club is the oldest and continuously operating press club in the country. More information can be found at milwaukeepressclub.org under their about section.
Today we are focusing on their “Once a Year,” magazine and their story of the year from 1940. These magazines were issued at the beginning of the new year to reflect on past events.
The highlight was about the postwar strike at Allis-Chambers. Allis-Chambers corporation was one of Milwaukee’s largest manufacturer if giants from 1846-1999. On May 24th, 1939, the workers unsuccessfully went on strike for 24 days to get a union shop and a check off system. On June 8th, things escalated between picketers as a brawl involving about 250 men ensued. This was because some picketers wanted to form an independent union and break off from the one they were picketing with. Three men ended up in the hospital for injuries. On June 18th the strike ended without getting a shop but did gain full protection against retaliation. They settled by agreeing to getting extra days of vacation and for not having wages cut.
This was not the first strike this company dealt with and certainly not the last. To view this article in person you can email askarch@uwm.edu and ask to view UWM Mss 146 Box 67.
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Hazel Ying Lee was an American pilot who flew for the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II. She was the first Chinese-American woman to earn a pilot’s license in 1932 at the age of 20.
As a Chinese American pilot in World War II Hazel Ying Lee became a straight up hero. She was born in Portland, Oregon in 1912 and in 1932 she found a love of flying when she went on her first airplane ride at an air show in 1932. Lee started taking flying lessons shortly afterwards in spite of her mother’s objections.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Lee joined the WASP’s and became the first Chinese-American woman to fly for the United States military. Lee’s missions involved delivering aircraft tot Romulus, Michigan where it was shipped to the European front. On November 10, 1944 Lee’s plane and another plane collided during a landing, she passed away two days later.
December 05 marked the anniversary of the massacre of striking workers of the United Fruit Company on the Caribbean coast of Colombia in 1928, where thousands were killed. The company responsible is known today as “Chiquita.”
