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September 23

The Workingman's Advocate of Chicago publishes the first installment of The Other Side, by Martin A. Foran, president of the Coopers' Int?l Union. Believed to be the first novel by a trade union leader and some say the first working-class novel ever published in the U.S. - 1868

September 23

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September 20

Upton Sinclair, socialist and author of The Jungle?published on this day in 1906?born in Baltimore, Md. - 1878

September 20

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September 18

The Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) is formally founded at an Ohio convention, during a period of serious corruption in the union. Two years earlier at an IBT convention in Las Vegas, a union reform leader who (unsuccessfully) called for direct election of officers and a limit on officers? salaries had been beaten by thugs - 1978

September 18