April 3

20,000 textile mill strikers in Paterson, NJ gather on the green in front of the house of Pietro Botto, the socialist mayor of nearby Haledon, to receive encouragement by novelist Upton Sinclair, journalist John Reed and speakers from the Wobblies. Today, the Botto House is home to the American Labor Museum – 1913

Also on this date: UAW Local 833 strikes the Kohler bathroom fixtures company. Martin Luther King Jr. returns to Memphis to stand with striking AFSCME sanitation workers. 

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