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The first issue of The Labor Review, a "weekly magazine for organized workers," was published in Minneapolis. Edna George, a cigar packer in Minneapolis, won $10 in gold for suggesting the name ?Labor Review.? The Labor Review has been published continuously since then, currently as a monthly newspaper - 1907

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March 27

Mother Jones is ordered to leave Colorado, where state authorities accuse her of ?stirring up? striking coal miners - 1904

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March 26

San Francisco brewery workers begin a 9-month strike as local employers follow the union-busting lead of the National Brewer?s Association. and fire their unionized workers, replacing them with scabs. Two unionized brewers refused to go along, kept producing beer, prospered wildly and induced the Association to capitulate. A contract benefit since having unionized two years earlier, certainly worth defending: free beer - 1868

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