May 22

Eugene V. Debs imprisoned in Woodstock, Ill. for role in Pullman strike -

1895 _(for more on Debs, check out [19]The Bending Cross: A Biography of

Eugene V. Debs __in the UCS bookstore)_

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Civil Service Retirement Act of 1920 gives federal workers a pension - 192

White firemen on the Georgia Railroad strike against the hiring of blacks. A

_New York Times_ correspondent reports that there is much violence against

the black firemen, coming not from the strikers but from "citizens along the

line of the road, who object to the preference given negroes over white

men." -1909

The Congress of Industrial Organizations’ (CIO’s) Steel Workers Organizing

Committee is disbanded at a Cleveland convention and immediately succeeded

by the workers’ new union, the United Steel Workers of America. - 1942

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