Each Friday, the Salt Lake Tribune presents historical images in a special series called "A Look Back." This week's installment features historic images of the labor movement, including strikes, union meetings and notable figures of the movement in Utah during the early-to-mid 1900s.
Every gallery of the series is available at www.sltrib.com/topics/lookback.
Photo courtesy Utah State Historical Society Street car workers strike on Main Street in Salt Lake City. The strike started on Sunday April 28, 1907, and ended the following day, B.H. Roberts helped mediate and Utah Light and Railway management and the strikers were able to come to an agreement.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society Carbon County coal miners, 1904, days after they were arrested on strike.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society A labor union political cartoon, date unknown.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society A group of boys messenger boys strike outside the Western Union Telegraph Company on Main Street in Salt Lake City, Aug. 9, 1907.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society United Air Lines flight engineers picket at the Salt Lake City Airport, Dec. 1, 1955.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society A political cartoon featured in the Salt Lake Herald in 1903 during Coal Miners' Strike in Carbon County.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society A group of workers strike during construction of the Newhouse Building. 1909.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society Labor organizer and IWW member Joe Hill, who was accused of murder and executed in Salt Lake City on Nov. 19, 1915. Date of photograph unknown.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society A hand steel drilling contest during Miners' Union Day at Bingham Canyon, Utah, where workers mined gold, silver, lead and copper.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society Mary "Mother" Jones, a leader in the labor movement, came to Carbon County in 1903 during a coal miners' strike.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society Miners' Union officers visit Lagoon Amusement Park, June 13, 1904.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society Workers sttrike at the construction site of the Commercial Club Building. June 2, 1909.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society Workers sttrike at the construction site of the Commercial Club Building. June 2, 1909.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society People on 100 South near Main Street as streetcar workers strike in Salt Lake City, April 28, 1907.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society Officers of the Utah Federation of Labor during the Labor Day Parade, 1904. From left: Thomas Watkins, John Osborne, H.B. Cromar, J.T. Lavery and Charles M. Vinson.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society Street car workers strike on Main Street in Salt Lake City, April 29, 1907.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society A hand steel drilling contest during Miners' Union Day at Bingham Canyon, Utah, around 1912.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society A meeting between the United Steel Workers of America and Structural Steel unions, 1952.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society A group of workers strike during construction of the Newhouse Building. 1909.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society A meeting of the United Mine Workers of America. Date unknown.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society A labor rally on steps of the Utah State Capitol, Feb. 1932.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society Protesters march through downtown during a labor rally in Salt Lake City, Feb. 1932.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society A meeting of members of the National Association of Independent Sewing Machine Dealers, 1954.
Courtesy | Utah State Historical Society Protesters march up State Street to the Utah State Capitol in a labor rally in Salt Lake City, Feb. 1932.
