February 10

Eleven members of the Carpenters’ union in Reesor Siding, Northern Ontario are shot, three fatally, by independent local farmer-settlers who were supplying wood to a Spruce Falls Power and Paper Co. plant. Some 400 union members were attempting to block an outbound shipment from the plant. The action came as the company was insisting on a pay freeze and two months of seven-day-a-week work - 1963
 
Also on this date: The American Federation of Labor (AFL) founds the Building and Construction Trades Department…Forty workers are killed on Staten Island, NY when a huge storage tank explodes

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