Historical American Labor and Union Newspapers Online

Union membership was about 15% in the 1930s and peaked at about 35% in the 1950s in the U.S. Currently, union membership is about 10%, even though in the past couple of decades, public-sector union membership has increased.

Alaska 

•  Anchorage Weekly Times and Alaska Labor News (Anchorage, Alaska) 1917-1918

Arkansas

•  The Union Label Bulletin (Little Rock, Ark.) 1901-191?
•  Union Labor Bulletin (Little Rock, Ark.) 191?-1957
•  Hard Labor

Arizona 

•  Arizona Socialist Bulletin
•  Eleven Mile News
•  Migrant’s Mike
•  News

California

•  Bakersfield – California Oil Worker
•  East Bay Labor Journal (Oakland, 1933-1974)
•  Labor Clarion (San Francisco, 1906-1947)
•  Organized Labor (San Francisco, 1900-1988)
•  East Bay Labor Journal(2055)
•  Monterey County Labor News(686)
•  San Francisco – Western Worker 

Colorado

•  Denver Labor Bulletin (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??
•  The Labor Enquirer (Denver, Colo.) 1882-1888
•  Colorado Chronicle
•  Denver Labor Bulletin
•  The Arbitrator
•  The Colorado Exchange Journal
•  The Delta County Laborer
•  The Denver Exchange Journal
•  The Labor Advocate
•  The Labor Enquirer
•  The Labor News
•  The Pueblo Courier
•  The Pueblo Labor Advocate
•  The Victor Record
•  Trade and Labor
•  United Labor Bulletin

Connecticut

•  Hartford Labor (Hartford, Conn.) 1894-189?
•  Mechanics’, Operatives’, and Laborers’ Advocate (Norwich, Ct.) 1836-1837
•  The Connecticut Labor News (New Haven, Conn.) 1921-1925
•  The Connecticut Labor Press (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921
•  The Labor Standard (Hartford, Conn.) 1908-192?
•  Hartford CT Labor Standard
•  New Haven CT Connecticut Labor Press
•  New Haven CT Labor News
•  New Haven CT Labor Press
•  Norwich CT Mechanics Operatives Laborers Advocate

Florida

•  Florida Labor Advocate (Tampa, Fla.) 1930-1958
•  Labor Citizen (Miami, Fla.) 1956-19??
•  Miami Labor Citizen (Miami, Fla.) 1949-1956
•  Florida labor advocate
•  Labor journal
•  Polk County labor journal
•  union labor news
•  West Florida labor news

Georgia

•  Savannah – The labor herald
•  International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Archives (1889- 1994) 

Hawaii

•  Honolulu – Labor Review of Hawaii
•  Honolulu – Voice of Labor
•  Honolulu – Honolulu Record

Idaho

•   Idaho Labor Herald (Boise, Idaho) 1913-1914
•  The Gem Worker and the Idaho Labor Herald (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917
•  Moscow – Idaho Forester 

Iowa

•  Labor News

Illinois

•  The Egyptian Labor Journal (Centralia, Ill.) 1 June 1945 – 1 June 1945 (1 issue)
•  Labor News Review 
•  Chicago – American Appeal 
•  Chicago – Communist 
•  Chicago – Communist 
•  Chicago – Industrial Union Bulletin
•  Chicago – Industrial Worker
•  Chicago – Jewish Labor World – אידישע ארבייטער וועלט
•  Chicago – Knights of Labor
•  Chicago – Labor Unity
•  Chicago – New Majority
•  Chicago – The Communist 
•  Chicago – The daily worker.
•  Chicago – The workingman’s advocate

Indiana

•  Ohio Valley Worker : Official Paper of the Federated Trades Council of Louisville, Trades and Labor Council of New Albany, Central Labor Union of Jeffersonville ([Louisville, Ky.]) 1904-????
•  Freedom’s Banner (Marion, Grant County; 25 June 1910 – 6 August 1910)
•  Indiana Socialist (Indianapolis, Marion County; 22 March 1913 – 12 July 1913)
•  Indiana Socialist Party Bulletin (Indianapolis, Marion County; 1 October 1911 – 1 September 1913)
•  Marion Labor Sentinel (Marion, Grant County; 23 April 1914 – 12 November 1914)
•  The Marion Socialist (Marion, Grant County; 20 August 1911 – 27 October 1912)

Kansas

•  Abilene – The Union Labor Banner
•  Topeka – Kansas Labor Review

Kentucky

•  Ohio Valley Worker : Official Paper of the Federated Trades Council of Louisville, Trades and Labor Council of New Albany, Central Labor Union of Jeffersonville ([Louisville, Ky.]) 1904-????
•  Louisville – Ohio valley worker

Massachusetts

•  Boston – Worker 
•  Lowell – Voice of Industry 

Maryland

•  The Voice of Labor (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942
•  Cumberland MD Voice of Labor

Maine

•  The Mechanic, Farmer and Working-Men’s Advocate (Portland: 1831-?)
•  The Farmer’s Friend and Laboring-Man’s Advocate (Kennebunk: 1831-?)
•  The Socialist Press (Portland: 1902-?)
•  The Maine Socialist (Bath: 1904-?)
•  The Maine Comrade (Thomaston: 1909?-?)
•  Maine Labor Leader (Portland: 1923?-?)
•  The Maine State Labor News (Augusta: 1933- )
•  The Maine Issue (Portland: 1976-1978)
•  The Pine Tree Progressive (Jefferson: 1997?-?)
•  Labor Record of Maine (Portland: 1942-1998)
•  Augusta – Maine State Labor News
•  Portland – Maine Labor Leader

Michigan

•  Labor Journal — Alpena, Alpena County (Mich.) — 3 January 1885 – 26 December 1890
•  Michigan Labor Journal — Alpena, Alpena County (Mich.) — 14 June 1884 – 27 December 1884
•  Grand Rapids CIO News
•  Grand Valley AFL CIO News
•  Grand Valley Labor News
•  Work In Progress
•  Grand Valley Labor News, 1968-2011
•  Detroit – Detroit Sunday Journal
•  Schoolcraft – The Grange Visitor

Minnesota

•  The Labor World (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-Current
•  Duluth, Minn. – Labor leader
•  Duluth, Minn. – The labor world
•  Minneapolis, Minn. – Teamsters Joint Council 32
•  Minneapolis, Minn. – The Minneapolis labor review
•  Minneapolis, Minn. – The Mississippi Valley lumberman
•  St. Paul, Minn. – The St. Paul union advocate
•  Minneapolis – Labor Review 
•  Minneapolis – Northwest Organizer
•  Minneapolis – The Organizer

Missouri

•  Springfield – Union Labor Record
•  Kansas City – Workers World

Mississippi

•  The New Mississippi Socialist (Kilmichael, Miss.) 19??-19??

Montana

•  Montana Labor News (Butte, Mont.) 19??-1951
•  Butte – The Butte Bystander
•  Butte – The Labor World
•  Butte – Copper Commando

Nebraska

•  The Wageworker (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????
•  Lincoln – The Wageworker.
•  The Western Laborer

New Jersey

•  Gloucester County Democrat (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932
•  The Voice of Labor (Camden, N.J.) 1910-19??

Nevada

• Las Vegas – BMI Newsletters 

North Carolina

•  The Labor News (Greensboro, N.C.)
•  The Union Labor Record (Wilmington, N.C.)

New York

•  Radnička Borba = Workers’ Struggle ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970
•  The Daily Worker (Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.) 1924-1958
•  The Toiler (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922
•  Workmen’s Advocate (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891
•  New York NY Labor Action
•  E J Workers Magazine
•  E.J. Workers Magazine
•  E.J. Workers Review
•  New York City – Daily Worker 1924-1926
•  New York City – Workers Age 1932-1940
•  New York City – Workers Challenge 1922

Ohio

•  Radnička Borba = Workers’ Struggle (New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970
•  Summit County Labor News (Akron, Ohio) 1923-1976
•  Akron – Summit County Labor News – 1944-1960
•  Cincinnati – Labor Advocate – 1915-1917
•  Cleveland – Americké Dělnické Listy (American Workingmen’s News) – 1918-1941
•  Cleveland – Echo : Wochenblatt der Vereinigten Deutschen Socialisten Clevelands – 1911-1920
•  Cleveland – Enakopravnost – 1942-1947
•  Cleveland – Radnička Borba = Workers’ Struggle – 1941-1946
•  Cleveland – Toiler – 1920-1921
•  Dayton – Dayton Union News – 1940-1943
•  East Liverpool – Potters Herald – 1938-1951
•  Hamilton – Butler County Press – 1913-1946
•  Newark – Newark Leader – 1917-1942
•  Toledo – Toledo Union Journal – 1942-1963
•  Youngstown – Bulletin – 1919-1977
•  Akron OH Democrat
•  Cleveland – Ohio Socialist 

Oklahoma

•  Oklahoma – Labor’s Daily (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) 1955-19??
•  Oklahoma – Labor’s Voice (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) 1934-1942
•  Oklahoma – Oklahoma Labor (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) 1935-1938
•  Oklahoma – Oklahoma Labor Unit (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-191?
•  Oklahoma – Oklahoma Socialist Bulletin (Oklahoma City, Okla. Terr. [Okla.]) 1906-19??
•  Oklahoma – Oklahoma State Labor News (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1906-19??
•  Oklahoma – The Labor Review (Oklahoma City [Okla.]) 19??-19??
•  Oklahoma – The Labor Signal (Oklahoma City, O.T. [Okla.]) 190?-19??
•  Oklahoma – The Union Labor Bulletin (Oklahoma City [Okla.]) 1920-19??
•  Pottawatomie – Labor World (Shawnee, Oklahoma) 1904-190?
•  Pottawatomie – Oklahoma Union Messenger and Independent Farmer (Shawnee, Oklahoma) 190?-190?

Oregon

•  Portland , Ore., 1987-current – Northwest labor press.
•  Portland, Oregon, 1900-1915 – Portland labor press.
•  Portland, Oregon, 1915-1986 – Oregon labor press.
•  Portland – Northwest Labor Press

Pennsylvania

•  Pittsburgh – National Labor Tribune
•  Pittsburgh – Printer’s Labor Tribune
•  The West Branch Republican (1838-1839)

Rhode Island

•  The Labor Advocate (Providence, R.I.) 1912-1915

Tennessee

•  Chattanooga – Southern Worker 

Texas

•  Bowie County, The Farm-Labor Union News (Texarkana, Tex.) 1921?-19??
•  Galveston County, Galveston Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.) 1912-????
•  Galveston County, Galveston Labor Herald (Galveston, Tex.) 1912-19??
•  Galveston County, Galveston Labor Journal (Galveston, Tex.) 1908-????
•  Galveston County, The Labor Dispatch (Galveston, Tex.) 19??-????
•  Harris County, Labor Messenger (Houston, Texas) 1929-1956
•  Harris County, The Houston Labor Journal (Houston, Texas) 1956-19??
•  San Juan – El Cuhamil

Virginia

•  The Labor Herald (Richmond, Va.) 1885-18??
•  Covington Pioneer (Covington, VA, 1981-1982)
•  Labor Herald (1924 ed.) (Richmond, VA, 1924-1926)
•  Labor Herald (Richmond, VA, 1886)
•  Labor Journal (Norfolk, VA, 1941)
•  National Watchman (Alexandria, VA, 1894-1895)
•  Richmond Labor Journal (Richmond, VA, 1921-1924)
•  Riverside (Shenandoah Iron Works, VA, 1880)
•  Roanoke Labor Journal (Roanoke, VA, 1933-1939)
•  Southern Workman (Hampton, VA, 1872-1939)
•  Square Deal (Richmond, VA, 1915-1921)

Washington

•  Southwest Washington Labor Press (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??
•  The Labor Journal (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976
•  The Northwest Worker (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917
•  The Washington Socialist (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915
•  Victory Worker (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943
•  Southwest Washington Labor Press (Hoquiam, Grays Harbor County, WA — 24 November 1922 – 22 April 1927)
•  The Labor Journal (Everett, Snohomish County, WA — 7 January 1909 – 29 December 1922)
•  The Northwest Worker (Everett, Snohomish County, WA — 1 July 1915 – 27 September 1917)
•  The Washington Socialist (Everett, Snohomish County, WA — 16 April 1914 – 24 June 1915)
•  The Labor Press Project – Pacific Northwest Labor and Radical Newspapers  
•  Home – Agitator 
•  Seattle – Puget Sound Chemist 
•  Spokane​ – Industrial Worker​​

West Virginia

•  The Labor Argus (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915
•  The Labor Review (Williamson, W. Va.) 1936-19??
•  The Socialist and Labor Star (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915

Wisconsin

•  Green Bay – The Unionist
•  La Crosse – Wisconsin Labor Advocate 

Wyoming

• The Labor News
• The Laborette
• The Wyoming Labor Journal

Good luck finding articles about your union ancestors!