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September 5

Between 20,000 and 30,000 marchers participate in New York's first Labor Day parade, demanding the 8-hour day - 1882

September 5

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September 3

African-American cotton pickers organize and strike in Lee County, Texas, against miserably low wages and other injustices, including a growers? arrangement with local law enforcement to round up blacks on vagrancy charges, then force them to work off their fines on select plantations.

September 3

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September 2

White and Chinese immigrants battle in Rock Springs, Wyo., fueled by racial tensions and the practice of Union Pacific Railroad of hiring lower-paid Chinese over whites.

September 2

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September 1

The Int?l Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers is founded at a meeting in Chicago, the product of two separate brotherhoods created over the previous 13 years - 1893

September 1

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August 31

John Reed forms the Communist Labor Party in Chicago. The Party?s motto: "Workers of the world, unite!" - 1919

August 31