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November 30

?Fighting Mary? Eliza McDowell, also known as the ?Angel of the Stockyards,? born in Chicago. As a social worker she helped organize the first women?s local of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union in 1902 - 1854

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November 29

Clerks, teamsters and building service workers at Boston Stores in Milwaukee strike at the beginning of the Christmas rush. The strike won widespread support?at one point 10,000 pickets jammed the sidewalks around the main store?but ultimately was lost. Workers returned to the job in mid-January with a small pay raise and no union recognition - 1934

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November 27

Some 1,200 workers sit down at Midland Steel, forcing recognition of the United Auto Workers, Detroit - 1936

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November 26

Six young women burn to death and 19 more die when they leap from the fourth-story windows of a blazing factory in Newark, N.J. The floors and stairs were wooden; the only door through which the women could flee was locked - 1910

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November 25

Some 10,000 New Orleans workers, Black and White, participate in a solidarity parade of unions comprising the Central Trades and Labor Assembly. The parade was so successful it was repeated the following two years - 1883

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