20,000 female garment workers are on strike in New York; Judge tells arrested pickets: “You are on strike against God” - 1909
The district president of the American Federation of Labor and two other white men are shot and killed in Bogalusa, Ala. as they attempt to assist an African-American organizer working to unionize African-American workers at the Great Southern Lumber Co. - 1919
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