In England, a compassionate parliament declares that children can't be required to work more than 12 hours a day. And they must have an hour’s instruction in the Christian Religion every Sunday and not be required to sleep more than two in a bed - 1802
(Kids at Work: Your heart will be broken by this exceptional book’s photographs of children at backbreaking, often
life-threatening
work, and the accompanying commentary by author Russell Freedman.
Photographer Lewis Hine—who himself died in poverty in 1940—did as much,
and perhaps more, than any social critic in the early part of the 20th
century to expose the abuse of children, as young as three and four, by
American capitalism.)Ten miners accused of being militant "Molly Maguires" are hanged in Pennsylvania. A private corporation initiated the investigation of the 10 through a private detective agency. A private police force arrested them, and private attorneys for the coal companies prosecuted them. "The state provided only the courtroom and the gallows," a judge said many years later - 1877
The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the right of unions to publish statements urging members to vote for a specific congressional candidate, ruling that such advocacy is not a violation of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act - 1948
An estimated 100,000 unionists and other supporters march in solidarity with striking Detroit News and Detroit Free Press newspaper workers - 1997
Striking
African-American auto workers are attacked by KKK, National Workers
League, and armed white workers at Belle Isle amusement park in Detroit.
Two days of riots follow, 34 people are killed, more than 1,300
arrested - 1943
one
infant in his mother's arms, during a strike at Republic Steel. One
union organizer later recalled, "When I got there I thought the Great
War had started over again. Gas was flying all over the place and shots
flying and flares going up and it was the first time I had ever seen
anything like it in my life..." - 1937
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