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May 2

Chicago's first Trades Assembly, formed three years earlier, sponsors a general strike by thousands of workers to enforce the state's new 8-hour-day law. The one-week strike was unsuccessful - 1867

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May 1

Mary Harris ?Mother? Jones born in County Cork, Ireland - 1830 (The Autobiography of Mother Jones: Mary Harris Jones??Mother Jones??was the most dynamic woman ever to grace the American labor movement. Employers and politicians around the turn of the century called her ?the most dangerous woman in America? and rebellious working men and women loved her as they never loved anyone else.)

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April 30

An explosion at the Everettville mine in Everettville, W. Va., kills 109 miners, many of whom lie in unmarked graves to this day - 1927

April 30

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April 30

An explosion at the Everettville mine in Everettville, W. Va., kills 109 miners, many of whom lie in unmarked graves to this day - 1927

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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

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