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July 6

Rail union leader Eugene V. Debs is arrested during the Pullman strike,

July 6

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July 5

During a strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company, which had drastically reduced wages, buildings constructed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago's Jackson park were set ablaze, reducing seven to ashes ? 1894

July 5

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July 4

AFL dedicates its new Washington, D.C. headquarters building at 9th St. and Massachusetts Ave. NW.

July 4

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July 3

Children, employed in the silk mills in Paterson, N.J., went on strike for 11-hour day and 6-day week.

July 3

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July 1

Some 1,100 streetcar workers strike in New Orleans, spurring the creation of the po? boy sandwich by a local sandwich shop owner and one-time streetcar man.

July 1