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April 13

Int?l Hod Carriers & Building Laborers? Union (today?s Laborers? Int?l Union) is founded, as 25 delegates from 23 Local Unions in 17 cities?representing 8,186 Laborers?meet in Washington, D.C. - 1903

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April 12

A group of "puddlers"?craftsmen who manipulated pig iron to create steel?met in a Pittsburgh bar and formed The Iron City Forge of the Sons of Vulcan.

April 12

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April 11

Ford Motor Company signs first contract with United Auto Workers - 1941

April 11

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April 10

Birth date of Frances Perkins, named secretary of labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first woman to hold a cabinet-level office - 1880

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April 9

WW organizes the 1,700-member crew of the Leviathan, then the world?s largest vessel - 1930

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April 8

A total of 128 convict miners, leased to a coal company under the state?s shameful convict lease system, are killed in an explosion at the Banner coal mine outside Birmingham, Ala.

April 8