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August 8

Delegates to the St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly elect 35-year-old Charles James, leader of the Boot and Shoe Workers local union, as their president. He was the first African-American elected to that leadership post in St. Paul, and, many believe, the first anywhere in the nation - 1902

August 8

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August 7

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Wobbly organizer, born - 1890 Eugene Debs and three other trade unionists arrested after Pullman Strike - 1894

August 7

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August 6

Cigarmakers' Int?l Union of America merges with Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union - 1974

August 6

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August 5

Using clubs, police rout 1,500 jobless men who had stormed the plant of the Fruit Growers Express Co. in Indiana Harbor, Ind., demanding jobs - 1931

August 5

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August 4

The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers is formed. It partnered with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, CIO in 1935; both organizations disbanded in 1942 to form the new United Steelworkers - 1876

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August 3

Uriah Smith Stephens born in Cape May, N.J. A tailor by trade, in 1869 he led nine Philadelphia garment workers to found the Knights of Labor - 1821

August 3