Several newspapers in the Society’s collection reflect Missouri’s worker’s associations and labor union history. These newspapers featured news coverage aimed at manufacturers, laborers, and their families. For example, the Farmer's Union, a weekly newspaper published on Thursdays in Memphis, Scotland County, Missouri, was a Populist journal that supported the Farmers’ and Laborers’ Union in northeast Missouri.
Additional newspapers found on SHSMO's Digital Collections website also share news relating to union workers and labor strikes.
For a list of all digitized newspapers, visit the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project.
For a list of newspapers on microfilm at the State Historical Society of Missouri, visit the newspaper catalog.
County | City | Title | Also Available On | Date Range |
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Greene | Springfield | Springfield Labor Record | Microfilm | 1979-1985 |
Greene | Springfield | Springfield Laborer | Microfilm | 1916-1917 |
Greene | Springfield | Union Labor Record | Microfilm | 1937-1979 |
Jackson | Kansas City | Kansas City Labor | Microfilm | 1895 |
Jackson | Kansas City | Kansas City Labor News | Microfilm | 1924-1938 |
Jackson | Labor Herald | Microfilm | 1904-1940 | |
Jackson | Labor Journal | Microfilm | 1942-1962 | |
Jasper | Labor Record | Microfilm | 1900-1901 | |
Jasper | Joplin | Joplin Missouri Trades Unionist | Microfilm | 1908-1921 |
Marion | Hannibal | Hannibal Labor Press | Microfilm | 1915-1972 |
Scotland | Memphis | Farmers’ Union | Microfilm | 1891-1895 |
St. Louis | Illinois Labor Tribune | Microfilm | 1963-1966 | |
St. Louis | Indiana Labor Tribune | Microfilm | 1955-1970 | |
St. Louis | Labor | Microfilm | 1893-1899 | |
St. Louis | Labor Campaign | Microfilm | 1894 | |
St. Louis | Labor Compendium | Microfilm | 1901-1905, 1907-1911 | |
St. Louis | St. Louis/ Southern Illinois Labor Tribune | Microfilm | 2012-2014 | |
St. Louis | Labor’s Call | Microfilm | 1977-1979 | |
St. Louis | Midwest Labor World | Microfilm | 1943-1963 | |
St. Louis | Milwaukee Labor | Microfilm | 1894 | |
St. Louis | Missouri Labor | Microfilm | 1896-1906 | |
St. Louis | Southern Illinois Labor Tribune | Microfilm | 1954-1963, 1966-1970 | |
St. Louis | St. Louis | St. Louis Commercial News and Labor Gazette | Microfilm | 1911 |
St. Louis | St. Louis | St. Louis Labor | Microfilm | 1895-1896, 1903-1930 |
St. Louis | St. Louis | St. Louis Labor Tribune | Microfilm | 1937-1985 |
St. Louis | St. Louis | St. Louis Union | Microfilm | 1883 |
St. Louis | St. Louis | St. Louis Union Labor Advocate | Microfilm | 1934-1958 |
St. Louis | Troy Labor | Microfilm | 1894 |