Union Labor Bulletin (Little Rock, Ark.) 191?-1957
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
921 issues from 1912 to 1931, published in Little Rock, Arkansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
Arkansas’s labor movement began early in the state’s history. In 1839, the first association of workers gathered in Arkansas’s capital, Little Rock, Pulaski County. The first craft union for a specific trade in the state formed in Little Rock in 1859 for journeymen printers. In 1904, the Arkansas State Federation of Labor (ASFL) was established, and it was affiliated with the American Federation of Labor (AFL). The ASFL worked to unite all unions in Arkansas, regardless of racial affiliation, to mobilize for political action. The federation was a leading organization in the Progressive movement in Arkansas. The ASFL went through several changes over the decades, renaming itself the Arkansas State Federated Labor Council, and then to the Arkansas American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (Arkansas AFL-CIO). Arkansas’s labor movement peaked in the 1960s, with 15 percent of nonagricultural workers belonging to a trade union. Union membership declined after this point, a trend seen nationwide.
In 1901, William “Will” or “Bill” Lyle Oury founded the Union Label Bulletin in Little Rock. He learned the newspaper trade from his father, William L. Oury, Sr. at the Tennessee Transcript (1874-1884) in Savannah, Tennessee, and later worked at the Forrest City Times (1871-1919), founded by Oury, Sr.’s brother, Thomas Fleming Oury, Sr. Oury, Jr. eventually settled in Little Rock, where he became foreman of the Arkansas Gazette (1889-1991). In 1900, Oury…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress