May 26

Actors’ Equity is founded by 112 theater actors meeting in the Pabst Grand Circle Hotel in New York City. A strike six years later, during which membership increased from 3,000 to 14,000, loosened the control on performers’ lives by theater owners and producers – 1913

 Also on this date: Men and women weavers in Pawtucket, R.I. stage nation's first "co-ed" strike. Western Federation of Miners members strike for eight-hour day, Cripple Creek, Colo. IWW Marine Transport Workers strike, Philadelphia. One hundred thousand steel workers and miners in mines owned by steel companies strike in seven states. Battle of the Overpass, Ford thugs beat United Auto Workers organizers.

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