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August 6

Cigarmakers' Int?l Union of America merges with Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union - 1974

August 6

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August 5

Using clubs, police rout 1,500 jobless men who had stormed the plant of the Fruit Growers Express Co. in Indiana Harbor, Ind., demanding jobs - 1931

August 5

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August 4

The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers is formed. It partnered with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, CIO in 1935; both organizations disbanded in 1942 to form the new United Steelworkers - 1876

August 4

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August 2

The first General Strike in Canadian history is held in Vancouver, organized as a 1-day political protest against the killing of draft evader and labor activist Albert ?Ginger? Goodwin, who had called for a general strike in the event that any worker was drafted against his will - 1918

August 2

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August 1

After organizing a strike of metal miners against the Anaconda Company, Wobbly organizer Frank Little is dragged by six masked men from his Butte, Mont., hotel room and hung from the Milwaukee Railroad trestle.

August 1