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02 May, 2014

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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

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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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Coal mine collapses at Eccles, W.Va., killing 181 workers - 1914

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April 27

First strike for 10-hour day, by Boston carpenters - 1825

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