June 20

The American Railway Union, headed by Eugene Debs, is founded in Chicago. In

the Pullman strike a year later, the union was defeated by federal

injunctions and troops, and Debs was imprisoned for violating the

injunctions - 1893

Henry Ford recognizes the United Auto Workers, signs contract for workers at

River Rouge plant - 1941

Striking African American auto workers are attacked by KKK, National Workers

League, and armed white workers at Belle Isle amusement park in Detroit. Two

days of riots follow, 34 people are killed, more than 1,300 arrested - 1943

The Taft-Hartley Labor Management Relations Act, curbing strikes, is vetoed

by President Harry S Truman. The veto was overridden three days later by a

Republican-controlled Congress - 1947 _(for more on U.S. labor laws, check

out [17]A Primer on American Labor Law, an accessible guide written for

nonspecialists including local union officers and management

representatives, stewards, rank-and-file activists and students of labor.

Covers such topics as the National Labor Relations Act, unfair labor

practices, the collective bargaining relationship, dispute resolution, the

public sector, and public-interest labor law.

Oil began traveling through the Alaska pipline. Seventy thousand people

worked on building the pipeline, history's largest privately-financed

construction project - 1977

Evelyn Dubrow, described by the _New York Times_ as organized labor's most

prominent lobbyist at the time of its greatest power, dies at age 95. The

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union lobbyist once told the _Times

_that "she trudged so many miles around Capitol Hill that she wore out 24

pairs of her Size 4 shoes each year." She retired at age 86 - 2006

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