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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

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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

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April 23

The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is founded through a merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada (TLC) and the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL), the two major union congresses in Canada at the time. The CLC represents the interests of more than three million affiliated workers - 1956

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April 22

Songwriter, musician and activist Hazel Dickens dies at age 75. Among her songs: ?They?ll Never Keep Us Down? and ?Working Girl Blues.? Cultural blogger John Pietaro: "Dickens didn?t just sing the anthems of labor, she lived them. Her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause" - 2011

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