May 25

The AFL-CIO begins what is to become an unsuccessful campaign for a 35-hour workweek, with the goal of reducing unemployment. Earlier tries by organized labor for 32- or 35-hour weeks also failed – 1962

Also on this date: Pressured by employers, striking shoemakers in Philadelphia arrested and charged with criminal conspiracy. Philip Murray, USWA founder and president, born in Scotland; also head of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Two company houses occupied by non-union coal miners blown up during a strike. Thousands of unemployed WWI veterans arrive in Washington, D.C. to demand a bonus they had been promised but never received. Notorious 11-month Remington Rand strike begins, spawning a corporate plan to discredit union leaders, frighten the public with the threat of violence, employ thugs to beat up strikers, and other tactics.

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