June 23

Charles Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, goes to Butte,

Mont. in an attempt to mediate a conflict between factions of the miner’s

local there. It didn’t go well. Gunfight in the union hall killed one man;

Moyer and other union officers left the building, which was then leveled in

a dynamite blast - 1914

Congress overrides President Harry Truman's veto of the anti-worker

Taft-Hartley Act. The law weakened unions and let states exempt themselves

from union requirements. Twenty states immediately enacted open shop laws

and more followed - 1947

OSHA issues standard on cotton dust to protect 600,000 workers from

byssinosis, also known as "brown lung" - 1978

The newly-formed Jobs With Justice stages its first big support action,

backing 3,000 picketing Eastern Airlines mechanics at Miami Airport - 1987

A majority of the 5,000 textile workers at six Fieldcrest Cannon textile

plants in Kannapolis, N.C., vote for union representation after an historic

25-year fight - 1999

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