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Sept 19

Chinese coal miners forced out of Black Diamond, Wash. - 1885

Sept 19

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Sept 18

The Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) is formally founded at an Ohio convention, during a period of serious corruption in the union. Two years earlier at an IBT convention in Las Vegas a union reform leader who (unsuccessfully) called for direct election of officers and a limit on officers? salaries had been beaten by thugs - 1978

Sept 18

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Sept. 17

75 workers die in explosion at Allegheny Arsenal, Pittsburgh, Pa. - 1862

Sept. 17

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September 13

The Post Office Department orders 25,000 railway mail clerks to shoot to kill any bandits attempting to rob the mail - 1926

September 13

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September 11

Some 75,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia end a ten-week strike after winning an eight hour day, semi-monthly pay, and the abolition of overpriced company-owned stores, where they had been forced to shop.

September 11