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October 8

Thirty of the city's 185 firefighters are injured battling the Great Chicago Fire, which burned for three days - 1871

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October 7

Joe Hill, labor leader and songwriter, born in Gavle, Sweden - 1879 The Structural Building Trades Alliance (SBTA) is founded, becomes the AFL?s Building Trades Dept. five years later. SBTA?s mission: to provide a form to work out jurisdictional conflicts - 1903

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October 5

A strike by set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, Calif., when scabs try to cross the picket line. The incident is still identified as "Hollywood Black Friday" and "The Battle of Burbank" - 1945

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October 4

Work begins on the carving of Mt. Rushmore, a task 400 craftsmen would eventuallycomplete in 1941. Despite the dangerous nature of the project, not one worker died - 1927

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October 3

The state militia is called in after 164 high school students in Kincaid, Ill., go on strike whenthe school board buys coal from the scab Peabody Coal Co. - 1932

October 3