The worst rail accident in U.S. history occurs when two trains pulled by 80-ton locomotives collided head-on at Dutchman’s curve in west Nashville, Tenn. 101 people died, another 171 were injured - 1918
New England Telephone "girls" strike for 7-hour workday, $27 weekly pay after four years' service - 1923
New York City subway system managers in the Bronx attempt to make cleaning crews on the IRT line work faster by forcing the use of a 14-inch squeegee instead of the customary 10-inch tool. Six workers are fired for insubordination; a 2-day walkout by the Transport Workers Union wins reversal of the directive and the workers’ reinstatement - 1935
United Packinghouse, Food & Allied Workers merge with Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen - 1968
Five
thousand demonstrators rally at the state capitol in Columbia, S.C., in
support of the "Charleston Five," labor activists charged with felony
rioting during a police attack on a 2000 longshoremen's picket of a
non-union crew unloading a ship - 2001(On the Global Waterfront tells the story of longshoremen in South Carolina who confronted attempts to wipe out their union, the state’s most powerful black organization, and rallied the nation and labor around the world in their successful fight.)
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