July 4

AFL dedicates its new Washington, D.C. headquarters building at 9th St. and Massachusetts Ave. NW.  The building, still standing, later became headquarters for the Plumbers and Pipefitters – 1916

 Also on this date: Albert Parsons -- later one of the Haymarket martyrs -- joins the Knights of Labor. Five newspaper boys from the Baltimore Evening Sun died when the steamer they were on, the Three Rivers, caught fire near Baltimore, MD. With the Great Depression underway, some 1,320 delegates attended the founding convention of the Unemployed Councils of the U.S.A., organized by the U.S. Communist Party. Two primary conventions of the United Nations' International Labor Organization come into force. Building trades workers lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.

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