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April 6

Birth of Rose Schneiderman, prominent member of the New York Women's Trade Union League,

April 6

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April 5

A huge underground explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, W. Va. kills 29 miners.

April 5

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April 4

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, where he has been supporting a sanitation workers? strike.

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April 3

20,000 textile mill strikers in Paterson, NJ 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.

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April 2

The Supreme Court declares unconstitutional a 1918 Washington, D.C. law establishing a minimum wage for women ? 1923

April 2

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April 1

Eleven-day strike by 34,000 New York City transit workers begins, halts bus and subway service in all five boroughs before strikers return to work with a 17 percent raise over two years plus a cost-of-living adjustment ? 1980

April 1