May 2

In Germany, Adolph Hitler issues an edict abolishing all labor unions, part of his effort to ban any political opposition - 1933

Also on this date: Chicago's first Trades Assembly sponsors a general strike by thousands of workers to enforce the state's new eight hour day law. Birth of Richard Trevellick, a ship carpenter, founder of American National Labor Union and later head of the National Labor Congress. First Workers’ Compensation law in U.S. enacted, in Wisconsin.  Pres. Herbert Hoover declares that the stock market crash six months earlier was just a "temporary setback". 

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