April 25

The New York Times declares the struggle for an eight-hour workday to be “un-American” and calls public demonstrations for the shorter hours “labor disturbances brought about by foreigners.” Other publications declare that an eight-hour workday day would bring about “loafing and gambling, rioting, debauchery and drunkenness” - 1886
Also on this date: IWW Marine Transport Workers begin West Coast strike…Rev. Ralph David Abernathy and 100 others arrested while on a union picket-line at a  Charleston, S.C. hospital…Supreme Court rules that employers can’t require female employees to make larger contributions to pension plans to get the same benefits as men…click here for complete postings.

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