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April 10

Birth date of Frances Perkins, named secretary of labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first woman to hold a cabinet-level office - 1880

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April 9

IWW organizes the 1,700-member crew of the Leviathan, then the world?s largest vessel - 1930

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April 8

A total of 128 convict miners, leased to a coal company under the state?s shameful convict lease system, are killed in an explosion at the Banner coal mine outside Birmingham, Ala. The miners were mostly African-Americans jailed for minor offenses - 1911

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April 7

National Labor Relations Board attorney tells ILWU members to ?lie down like good dogs,? Juneau, Alaska - 1947

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April 6

The first slave revolt in the U.S. occurs at a slave market in New York City?s Wall Street area. Twenty-one blacks were executed for killing nine whites. The city responded by strengthening its slave codes - 1712

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April 5

Columnist Victor Riesel, a crusader against mob infiltration of unions, was blinded in New York City when an assailant threw sulfuric acid in his face. He was also an FBI informer for decades, a proponent of the McCarthy era blacklisting that weakened unions for over a generation, and a crusader against unions connecting with anti-war student activism in the 1960's and 70's - 1956

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