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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 United Wallpaper Craftsmen & Workers of North America merges with Pulp, Sulfite & Paper Mill Workers - 1958

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April 27

First strike for 10-hour day, by Boston carpenters - 1825 James Oppenheim?s poem ?Bread and Roses? published in IWW newspaper Industrial Solidarity - 1946

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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 by 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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