June 19

The Women’s Day Massacre in Youngstown, Ohio, when police use tear gas on women and children, including at least 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

 Also on this date: Eight-hour work day adopted for federal employees. AFL President Sam Gompers and Secretary of War Newton Baker sign an agreement establishing board of adjustment to control wages, hours and working conditions for construction workers on government projects. Pioneering sit-down strike conducted by workers at a General Tire Co. factory in Akron, Ohio. ILWU begins four-day general strike to protest convictions of seven activists, "the Hawai’i Seven".

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