June 25

More than 8,000 people attend the dedication ceremony for The Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Chicago, honoring those framed and executed for the bombing at Haymarket Square on May 4, 1886 – 1893

Also on this date: Fair Labor Standards Act passes Congress, banning child labor and setting the 40-hour work week. At the urging of black labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph, Franklin Roosevelt bars discrimination in defense industries. Congress passes the Smith-Connally War Labor Disputes Act over Pres. Franklin Roosevelt’s veto. 21 workers killed when a fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes. Decatur, Ill. police pepper-gas workers at A.E. Staley plant gate.

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