July 10

Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights activist, born - 1875

14,000 federal and state troops finally succeed in putting down the strike

against the Pullman Palace Car Co., which had been peaceful until July 5,

when federal troops intervened in Chicago, against the repeated protests of

the Governor and Chicago’s mayor. Some 34 American Raily Union members were

killed by troops over the course of the strike - 1894

A powerful explosion rips through the Rolling Mill coal mine in Johnstown,

Pa., killing 112 miners, 83 of whom were immigrants from Poland and Slovakia

- 1902

The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce holds a mass meeting of more than

2,000 merchants to organize what was to become a frontal assault on union

strength and the closed shop. The failure of wages to keep up with inflation

after the 1906 earthquake had spurred multiple strikes in the city - 1916

Sidney Hillman dies at age 59. He led the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, was

a key figure in the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and

was a close advisor to Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt - 1946

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