1913 -- US: New Laboring Device? Department of Labor begins laboring.

1918 -- US: The Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice orders copies of all correspondence to & from Emma Goldman sent to its office in Washington, D.C.



1921 -- E. M. Forster begins his passage to India (or on the 1st?) to assume duties as secretary to the Maharaja of Dewas Senior.

Source: Neal Jones (ed.), "A Book of Days for the Literary Year"; (HistoryChannel.Com says March 1st)
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/3705/forster.html

1921 -- Russia: "At the Extraordinary Session of the Petrograd Soviet, called to decide the fate of Kronstadt, Zinoviev said: "Of course Kozlovsky is old & can do nothing, but the White Officers are back of him & are misleading the sailors."

Alexander Berkman, however, stressed the fact that the sailors would have none of Trotsky's former pet General, nor would they accept the offer of provisions & other help of Victor Tchernov, leader of the Right S.R.'s (Socialist Revolutionists) in Paris."

Emma Goldman, Trotsky Protests Too Much (1938)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Writings/Essays/trotsky.html

Berkman's earliest essays on Russia were published in three pamphlets — The Russian Tragedy, The Russian Revolution & the Communist Party, & The Kronstadt Rebellion in Berlin in 1922. They were collected & reissued as The Russian Tragedy (Sanday, Orkney: Cienfuegos Press, 1976), with an introduction by William G. Nowlin, Jr.

[Details / context]

alt: Cronstadt

1921 -- Russia: During Krondstadt uprising (March 1-17), in support of striking Petrograd factory workers, sailors demand democratic election of Soviet representatives. Emma Goldman attends today's meeting of the Petrograd Soviet, which votes to accept Zinoviev's proposal to force the surrender of Krondstadt sailors upon penalty of death.


1928 -- Allan Sillitoe, "angry young man," lives, Nottingham. English novelist/poet/playwright & social critic, who introduced in post-World War II British fiction realistically portrayed working-class heroes. Encouraged by Robert Graves, he wrote his first novel The Saturday Night & Sunday Morning. His best known work is The Loneliness of Long-Distance Runner (1959).
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/calendar.htm



1930 -- Spare Me?: Emma Fahning is the first woman to bowl a perfect game.


1932 -- Zensi Miriam Makeba, "Empress of African Song," lives, Prospect Township, South Africa.


1935 -- Canada: Emma Goldman delivers two further lectures to Jewish groups — on "Crime & Punishment" on March 4 & birth control on March 15 — & the last in her drama series conclude Emma's lectures in Montreal; she returns to Toronto on March 17.

Emma speaks at two Yiddish meetings in Toronto at the end of the month, one a lecture, the other a 70th birthday celebration for Chaim Zhitlovsky, the exiled Russian revolutionary.

By the end of the month a formal committee to raise a "Sustaining Fund for Emma Goldman" is organized in New York by her niece Stella Ballantine & Roger Baldwin, & 300 fund-raising letters solicit $3,000 in contributions to support Emma while she is writing a book; Jeanne Levey helps with the appeal from Chicago.

She grows increasingly concerned about Alexander Berkman's financial condition & raises emergency funds for him & Emmy Eckstein.

Emma Goldman Papers

1937 -- US: UAW workers sit-down victory in Flint, Michigan.

The United Automobile Workers sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan, wins a contract forcing General Motors to recognize them. The 40-day action at Fisher Body Plant Number One is the longest sit-down strike in history.

Employees inside are protected by 5,000 armed workers circling the plant. After police tear-gas attacks, workers fight back with firehoses. Gunfire wounds 13 workers, but the cops are driven back. By the time the National Guard arrives, the strike spreads to GM plants across the nation.

1937 -- Spain: The newspaper "La Noche" carries an announcement introducing the aims, characteristics & membership conditions of the anarchist Friends of Durruti Group. Also, the Generalidad issues a decree winding up the Control Patrols. In "La Batalla", Nin passes favorable & hopeful comment on an article by Jaime Balius carried in the March 2nd edition of "La Noche". alt: Jaume Balius; anarquista, anarchist
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/spain/sp001780/chap1.html
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/DurrutiColumnEarly.htm
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/spain/sp001780/chap5.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8195/Durruti.html


1939 -- US: Lala Har Dayal (aka Hardayal, or Hardyal) (1884-1939) dies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Indian revolutionary & scholar dedicated to the removal of British influence in India. In March or April (I have conflicting dates) 1914 he was arrested by the US government for spreading anarchist literature. Released on bail, he fled to Switzerland & then to Berlin, where he tried to foment an anti-British rising in northwestern India.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lala_Hardayal


1947 -- ¶ Beatster Neal Cassady leaves New York after his first visit.



1950 -- Prelude to Ukulele guy Paul Moore's musical walk on the wild side...The only One Man Band in the world to be hosted by the “Israel Philharmonic Orchestra”.
http://paulmooremusic.com/



1954 -- Russian lyric poet, essayist, & political dissident, Irina Georgiyevna Ratushinskaya, lives, Odessa, Ukraine. While in prison for her advocacy of human rights, she wrote some 250 poems, first scratching them into bars of soap & then, after memorizing them, washing them away. Stikhi (Poems, 1984) was published while she is imprisoned.
http://www.wheaton.edu/learnres/ARCSC/collects/sc44/bio.htm


1960 -- US: It is revealed, in connection with the current congressional investigation into payola, that Federal Communications Chairman John Doerfer took a six-day trip to Florida courtesy of Storer Broadcasting.


1962 -- US nuclear reactor begins operating, Antarctica.


1962 -- Discovered today in the Family Planning Association archives: Guy Aldred, 4 Mar 1962 to John Peel (who was writing a history of FP) re: Sanger: 'Her work was very important but I believed that she liked to be patronised too much by the great & the rich. I had no time for that sort of thing.'

[Aldred] & his partner Rose Witcop published a cheap UK edition of Sanger's "Family Limitation" & were prosecuted for obscenity. He was an anarchist & it would seem something of a Puritan (certainly from this letter, written when he was quite old) about matters of sex. Obviously writing with some degree of hindsight, but it's interesting that Stella Browne, writing to Havelock Ellis about her break with Sanger, said rather the same things.

1963 -- William Carlos Williams dies, Rutherford, New Jersey. His little red wagon fatally rusted, there will be no more late night notes on his refrigerator door.

"Christianity will go. It will vanish & shrink. I needn't argue that. I'm right & will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus right now."

1966 -- The Charlatans & the Electric Chamber Orkustra appeared at Soko Hall, 739 Page St., Frisco, California.


1968 -- US: Martin Luther King, Jr. announces he will lead a Poor People's March on Washington in April.


1968 -- Picasso dona su serie sobre Las Meninas al museo barcelonés que lleva su nombre.
http://www.el-mundo.es/larevista/num132/textos/crono.html
http://www.incompetech.com/art/picasso.html

1969 -- US: S.S. Yukon, carrying 150,000 barrels of oil, hits a submerged object & spills its cargo into Cook Inlet, Alaska.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/images/Images/toxico.jpg


1969 -- Union of Concerned Scientists founded.



1970 -- Janis Joplin fined $200 for using obscene language onstage in Tampa, Florida.




1970 -- Puerto Rican student killed by police during a demonstration against the Vietnam War.



1974 -- Argentina: Acting in collusion & at the behest of striking lead workers, the urban guerrilla People's Revolutionary Army kidnap one of the INSUD plant managers. As a result, & in just 22 days, the strikers win compensation for lead poisoning & a reduction of the working day to six hours.
[Source: Calendar Riots]


1977 -- US: First CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico.

1978 -- Netherlands: 40,000 demonstrate against uranium enrichment plant, Almelo.


1982 -- All in the family?: Frank Zappa's son Dweezil & daughter Moon Unit form a band called Fred Zeppelin. Their first single is My Mother is a Space Cadet. Not too personal.


1985 -- US: Supreme Court upholds right of Oneida nation of New York to sue for lands illegally taken in 1795.


1986 -- Richard Manuel, 41, of "The Band" dies by hanging.



1986 -- US: Six months after gunning down a liquor store clerk, 15-yr. old "Devil Child" Sean Sellers conducts a "Satanic Ritual" & kills his final victims, shooting his parents in their sleep, Oklahoma City.



2006 -- France: Celebration of the centenary of the Congress of Amiens (8-13 October 1906), "Editions CNT-RP" & the CNT-93, a conference entitled "Revolutionary Syndicalism, the Charter of Amiens ("Charte d’Amiens") & workers' autonomy" on 4th & 5th is held at the Bourse du Travail in Saint Denis (Rue Bobby Sands).
http://www.ainfos.ca/06/jan/ainfos00285.html

3000 --

The whole world is in jail & we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

— Hugh Romney, aka Wavy Gravy