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April 19

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, the nation?s ?Furniture City,? more than 6,000 immigrant workers?Germans, Dutch, Lithuanians and Poles?put down their tools and struck 59 factories for four months in what was to become known as the Great Furniture Strike - 1911

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April 18

West Virginia coal miners strike, defend selves against National Guard - 1912

April 18

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April 11

Ford Motor Company signs first contract with United Auto Workers - 1941

April 11

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April 10

Birth date of Frances Perkins, named secretary of labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first woman to hold a cabinet-level office - 1880

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April 9

IWW organizes the 1,700-member crew of the Leviathan, then the world?s largest vessel - 1930

April 9