June 3

Int’l Ladies Garment Workers Union founded - 1900

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

More than 1,000 Canadian men, working at “Royal Twenty Centers” established by the Canadian government to provide work for single, unemployed homeless males during the Great Depression, begin an “On to Ottawa Trek” to protest conditions at the camps. They were being paid 20 cents a day plus food and shelter to build roads, plant trees and construct public buildings - 1935

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