LABOR TEMPLE

LABOR TEMPLE. The 1937 Dubuque Consurvey Directory through 1941 Dubuque City Directory listed 236 W. 9th.

The 1957 through 1968 Dubuque City Directory listed 111 W. 6th.

By 1995 the Labor Temple was located at 1610 Garfield.

URBAN RENEWAL claimed the Labor Temple at 111 W. 6th Street. Construction on a new $65,000 temple for the Dubuque Federal of Labor was begun in 1968 in cooperation with the Metal Trades Council which owned the old building, with other labor organizations. An estimated twenty unions had maintained headquarters in the old building and most were expected to relocate to the new one. Since the old building had been torn down, meetings had been held in rented halls. (1)

In 2010 the Dubuque Federation of Labor AFL-CIO sponsored a recognition of Workers Memorial Day on April 28th, the date the Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed. The occasion held at the Labor Temple was planned to honor those area workers who had been killed or injured on the job in the past year. The names of the fallen workers were added to a plaque in connection with a permanent marker at the temple. The previous year, the names of sixty0five workers who had died on the job in Iowa were read aloud. (2)

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Source:

1. "Labor Temple is Going Up," Telegraph Herald, December 5, 1968, p. 19

2. "Worker's Memorial Day Program Set for Today," Telegraph Herald, April 28, 2010, p. 3