June 24 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Birth
of Agnes Nestor, president of the Int’l Glove Workers Union and
longtime leader of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League. She began
work in a glove factory at age 14 - 1880
Seventeen workers are killed as methane explodes in a water tunnel under construction in Sylmar, Calif. - 1971
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