April 11

Some 25,000 marchers in Watsonville, Calif. show support for United Farm Workers organizing campaign among strawberry workers, others – 1997

Also on this date: Ford Motor Company signs first contract with UAW. Jackie Robinson plays his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers. United Mine Workers President W. A. "Tony" Boyle is found guilty of first-degree murder, for ordering the 1969 assassination of union reformer Joseph A. "Jock" Yablonski. 34,000 New York City Transit Authority workers, eleven days into a strike for higher wages, end their walkout. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issues regulations prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors. Police in Austin, Minn. tear-gas striking Hormel meatpacking workers. 

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