June 3

Int’l Ladies Garment Workers Union founded - 1900

A federal child labor law, enacted two years earlier, was declared unconstitutional - 1918

Some 25,000 white autoworkers walk off the job at Packard Motor Car Co. in Detroit when three African-Americans are promoted to the assembly line, where they will be working next to whites.  The three were relocated and the walkout ended - 1943

More info & ammo for unionists is available
online from Union Communication Services.

http://www.unionist.com/