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December 16

The National Civic Federation is formed by business and labor leaders, most prominently AFL president Sam Gompers, as a vehicle to resolve conflicts between management and labor.

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December 15

AFL convention passes a 1? per capita assessment to aid the organization of women workers (Exact date uncertain) - 1913 The Kansas National Guard is called out to subdue from 2,000 to 6,000 protesting women who were going from mine to mine attacking non-striking miners in the Pittsburgh coal fields. The women made headlines across the state and the nation: they were christened the "Amazon Army" by the New York Times - 1921

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December 14

Some 33,000 striking members of the Machinists end a 69-day walkout at Boeing after winning pay and benefit increases and protections against subcontracting some of their work overseas - 1995

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December 13

Death in San Antonio, Texas, of Samuel Gompers, president and founder of the American Federation of Labor - 1924

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December 12

A U.S. immigration sweep of six Swift meat plants results in arrests of nearly 1,300 undocumented workers - 2006 (The Union Steward?s Guide, Spanish 2nd edition: This bound, 158-page compilation contains more than 130 articles from the Spanish language edition of Steward Update newsletter, read today by more than 70,000 stewards across North America.)

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December 11

A small group of black farmers organize the Colored Farmers? National Alliance and Cooperative Union in Houston County, Texas. They had been barred from membership in the all-white Southern Farmers? Alliance. Through intensive organizing, along with merging with another black farmers group, the renamed Colored Alliance by 1891 claimed a membership of 1.2 million - 1886

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