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May 02

Chicago's first Trades Assembly, formed three years earlier, sponsors a general strike by thousands of workers to enforce the state's new 8-hour-day law. The one-week strike was unsuccessful - 1867

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May 01

Mary Harris ?Mother? Jones born in County Cork, Ireland - 1830 (Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." A century ago, Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of the modern American labor movement. At coal strikes, steel strikes, railroad, textile, and brewery strikes, Mother Jones was always there, stirring the workers to action and enraging the powerful. In this first biography of "the most dangerous woman in America," Elliott J. Gorn proves why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and... will be lovingly remembered by their children and their children's children forever.")

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April 30

An explosion at the Everettville mine in Everettville, W. Va., kills 109 miners, many of whom lie in unmarked graves to this day - 1927

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April 29

Coxey?s Army of 500 unemployed civil war veterans reaches Washington, D.C. - 1894

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April 28

Coal mine collapses at Eccles, W.Va., killing 181 workers - 1914 A total of 119 die in Benwood, W.Va., coal mine disaster - 1924 United Wallpaper Craftsmen & Workers of North America merges with Pulp, Sulfite & Paper Mill Workers - 1958

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April 27

First strike for 10-hour day, by Boston carpenters - 1825 James Oppenheim?s poem ?Bread and Roses? published in IWW newspaper Industrial Solidarity - 1946

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