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Sept 23

The Workingman's Advocate of Chicago publishes the first installment of The Other Side, by Martin A. Foran, president of the Coopers' International Union. Believed to be the first novel by a trade union leader and some say the first working-class novel ever published in the U.S. ? 1868

Sept 23

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Sept 21

Militia sent to Leadville, Colo., to break miners strike - 1896

Sept 21

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Sept 20

Upton Sinclair, socialist and author of "The Jungle"?published on this day in 1906?born in Baltimore, MD - 1878

Sept 20

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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