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March 23

Trial of 101 Wobblies, charged with opposing the draft and hindering the war effort, begins in Chicago - 1918

March 23

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March 22

Mark Twain, a lifelong member of the Int?l Typographical Union (now part of CWA), speaks in Hartford, Conn., extolling the Knights of Labor?s commitment to fair treatment of all workers, regardless of race or gender - 1886

March 22

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March 19

U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Adamson Act, a federal law that established an 8-hour workday, with overtime pay, for interstate railway workers.

March 19

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March 18

Six laborers in Dorset, England?the "Tolpuddle Martyrs"?are banished to the Australian penal colony for seven years for forming a union, the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers.

March 18