May 2

Chicago's first Trades Assembly, formed three years earlier, sponsors a
general strike by thousands of workers to enforce the state's new eight hour
day law. The one-week strike was unsuccessful - 1867

Birth of Richard Trevellick, a ship carpenter, founder of American National
Labor Union and later head of the National Labor Congress, America’s first
national labor organization - 1830

First Workers’ Compensation law in U.S. enacted, in Wisconsin - 1911

Pres. Herbert Hoover declares that the stock market crash six months earlier
was just a "temporary setback" and the economy would soon bounce back. In
fact the Great Depresssion was to continue and worsen for several more years
- 1930

In Germany, Adolph Hitler issues an edict abolishing all labor unions, part
of his effort to ban any political opposition - 1933

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