July 4

July 04

Albert Parsons joins the Knights of Labor. He later became an anarchist and

was one of the Haymarket martyrs - 1876

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

Five newspaper boys from the _Baltimore Evening Sun_ died when the steamer

they were on, the Three Rivers, caught fire near Baltimore, Md. They are

remembered every year at a West Baltimore cemetery, toasted by former

staffers of the now-closed newspaper - 1924

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. They demanded passage of unemployment insurance

and maternity benefit laws and opposed discrimination by race or sex - 193

Two primary conventions of the United Nations' International Labor

Organization come into force: Freedom of Association and Protection of the

Right to Organize – 1950

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