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December 24

Seventy-two copper miners? children die in panic caused by a company stooge at Calumet, Mich., who shouted ?fire? up the stairs into a crowded hall where the children had gathered.

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December 23

AFL officers are found in contempt of court for urging a labor boycott of Buck's Stove and Range Co. in St Louis, where the Metal Polishers were striking for a 9-hour day - 1908

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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

December 13