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February 20

Responding to a 15 percent wage cut, women textile workers in Lowell, Mass., organize a ?turn-out??a strike?in protest. The action failed. Two years later they formed the Factory Girl?s Association in response to a rent hike in company boarding houses and the increase was rescinded. One worker?s diary recounts a ?stirring speech? of resistance by a co-worker, 11-year-old Harriet Hanson Robinson - 1834

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February 19

American Federation of Labor issues a charter to its new Railroad Employees Department - 1909

February 19

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February 18

One of the first American labor newspapers, The Man, is published in New York City. It cost 1? and, according to The History of American Journalism, ?died an early death.? Another labor paper, N.Y. Daily Sentinel, had been launched four years earlier - 1834

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February 17

Sixty-three sit-down strikers, demanding recognition of their union, are tear-gassed and driven from two Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. plants in Chicago. Two years later the U.S. Supreme Court declared sit-down strikes illegal. The tactic had been a major industrial union organizing tool - 1937

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February 16

Leonora O?Reilly was born in New York. The daughter of Irish immigrants, she began working in a factory at 11, joined the Knights of Labor at 16, and was a volunteer investigator of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911. She was a founding member of the Women?s Trade Union League - 1870

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February 15

Susan B. Anthony, suffragist, abolitionist, labor activist, born in Adams, Mass. "Join the union, girls, and together say: Equal Pay for Equal Work." - 1820

February 15