An estimated 100,000 textile workers, including more than 10,000 children, strike in the Philadelphia area. Among the issues: 60-hour workweeks, including night hours, for the children - 1903
Ten
thousand strikers at Toledo, Ohio’s Auto-Lite plant repel police who
have come to break up their strike for union recognition. The next day,
two strikers are killed and 15 wounded when National Guard machine gun
units open fire. Two weeks later the company recognized the union and
agreed to a 5 percent raise - 1934U.S. railroad strike starts, later crushed when President Truman threatens to draft strikers – 1946
The Granite Cutters International Association of America merges with Tile, Marble, Terrazzo, Finishers & Shopmen, which five years later merged into the Carpenters – 1983
SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.
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