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April 29

Coxey?s Army of 500 unemployed civil war veterans reaches Washington, D.C. - 1894

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April 28

Coal mine collapses at Eccles, W.Va., killing 181 workers - 1914 A total of 119 die in Benwood, W.Va., coal mine disaster - 1924

April 28

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April 26

The U.S. House of Representatives passes House Joint Resolution No. 184, a constitutional amendment to prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age. The Senate approved the measure a few weeks later, but it was never ratified by the states and is still technically pending - 1924

April 26

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April 25

The New York Times declares the struggle for an 8-hour workday to be ?un-American? and calls public demonstrations for the shorter hours ?labor disturbances brought about by foreigners.? Other publications declare that an eight-hour workday day would bring about ?loafing and gambling, rioting, debauchery and drunkenness? - 1886

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April 24

The Int?l Longshoremen?s and Warehousemen?s Union halts shipping on the West Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Philadelphia journalist who many believed was on death row because he was an outspoken African-American - 1999

April 24