July 3

Children, employed in the silk mills in Paterson, N.J., went on strike for 11-hour day and 6-day week.  A compromise settlement resulted in a 69-hour work week – 1835

 Also on this date: Feminist and labor activist Charlotte Perkins Gilman born in Hartford, CT.

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