September 21 --
Militia sent to Leadville, Colo., to break miners’ strike - 1896
Mother Jones leads a march of miners' children through the streets of Charleston, W. Va. - 1912
National Football League Players
Association members begin what is to become a 57-day strike, their first
regular-season walkout ever - 1982
Members of five unions at the Frontier
Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas begin what was to become the longest
successful hotel strike in U.S. history. All 550 workers honored the
picket line for the entirety of the 6-year, 4-month, 10-day fight
against management’s insistence on cutting wages and eliminating
pensions - 1991
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