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First anthracite coal strike in U.S. - 1842
Labor organizer Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor born on Staten Island, N.Y. Among her activities: investigating child labor in glass
factories and mines, and working undercover in meat packing plants to
verify for federal investigators the nightmarish working conditions that
author Upton Sinclair had revealed in The Jungle - 1862
The Pacific Mail Steamship Co. fires all employees who had been
working an 8-hour day, then joins with other owners to form the
"Ten-Hour League Society" for the purpose of uniting all mechanics
"willing to work at the old rates, neither unjust to the laborers nor
ruinous to the capital and enterprise of the city and state." The effort
failed - 1867
Founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.,
or Wobblies) concludes in Chicago. Charles O. Sherman, a former American
Federation of Labor organizer, is elected president - 1905
Some 35,000 members of the Machinists union begin what is to become a
43-day strike that shuts down five major U.S. airlines, about
three-fifths of domestic air traffic. The airlines were thriving, and
wages were a key issue in the fight - 1966
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