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February 22

Representatives of the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers meet in St. Louis with 20 other organizations to plan the founding convention of the People?s Party. Objectives: end political corruption, spread the wealth, and combat the oppression of the rights of workers and farmers - 1892

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February 21

A state law was enacted in California providing the 8-hour day for most workers, but it was not effectively enforced - 1868

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February 20

Responding to a 15 percent wage cut, women textile workers in Lowell, Mass., organize a ?turn-out??a strike?in protest. The action failed. Two years later they formed the Factory Girl?s Association in response to a rent hike in company boarding houses and the increase was rescinded. One worker?s diary recounts a ?stirring speech? of resistance by a co-worker, 11-year-old Harriet Hanson Robinson - 1834

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February 19

American Federation of Labor issues a charter to its new Railroad Employees Department - 1909

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February 18

One of the first American labor newspapers, The Man, is published in New York City. It cost 1? and, according to The History of American Journalism, ?died an early death.? Another labor paper, N.Y. Daily Sentinel, had been launched four years earlier - 1834

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