August 27 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Some 14,000 Chicago teachers who have gone without pay for several months finally collect about $1,400 each - 1934
President Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize all the nation's railroads to prevent a general strike. The railroads were not returned to their owners until two years later - 1950
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