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

 Also on this date: Congress overrides President Harry Truman's veto of the anti-worker Taft-Hartley Act. OSHA issues standard on cotton dust to protect 600,000 workers from "brown lung". Textile workers at six Fieldcrest Cannon textile plants in Kannapolis, N.C., vote for union representation after an historic 25-year fight.

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