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July 24

The United Auto Workers and the Teamsters form the Alliance for Labor Action (ALA), later to be joined by several smaller unions.

July 24

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July 23

Anarchist Alexander Berkman shoots and stabs but fails to kill steel magnate Henry Clay Frick in an effort to avenge the Homestead massacre 18 days earlier, in which nine strikers were killed.

July 23

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July 22

Newly unionized brewery workers in San Francisco, mostly German socialists, declare victory after the city?s breweries give in to their demands for free beer,

July 22

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July 21

Local militiamen are called out against striking railroad workers in Pittsburgh.

July 21

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July 20

New York City newsboys, many so poor that they were sleeping in the streets, begin a two-week strike.

July 20