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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.

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April 7

National Labor Relations Board attorney tells ILWU members to ?lie down like good dogs,? Juneau, Alaska - 1947

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April 6

The first slave revolt in the U.S. occurs at a slave market in New York City?s Wall Street area. Twenty-one blacks were executed for killing nine whites. The city responded by strengthening its slave codes - 1712

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April 5

Columnist Victor Riesel, a crusader against mob infiltration of unions, was blinded in New York City when an assailant threw sulfuric acid in his face - 1956

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April 4

The first issue of The Labor Review, a "weekly magazine for organized workers," was published in Minneapolis. Edna George, a cigar packer in Minneapolis, won $10 in gold for suggesting the name ?Labor Review.? The Labor Review has been published continuously since then, currently as a monthly newspaper - 1907

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April 3

Some 20,000 textile mill strikers in Paterson, N.J., gather on the green in front of the house of Pietro Botto, the socialist mayor of nearby Haledon, to receive encouragement by novelist Upton Sinclair, journalist John Reed and speakers from the Wobblies. Today, the Botto House is home to the American Labor Museum - 1913

April 3