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May 19

Explosion in Coal Creek, Tenn. kills 184 miners - 1902 Shootout in Matewan, W. Va. between striking union miners (led by Police Chief Sid Hatfield) and coal company agents. Ten died, including seven agents - 1920

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May 18

In what may have been baseball?s first labor strike, the Detroit Tigers refuse to play after team leader Ty Cobb is suspended: he went into the stands and beat a fan who had been heckling him. Cobb was reinstated and the Tigers went back to work after the team manager?s failed attempt to replace the players with a local college team: their pitcher gave up 24 runs - 1912

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May 17

First women?s anti-slavery conference, Philadelphia - 1838

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May 16

Minneapolis general strike backs Teamsters, who are striking most of the city?s trucking companies - 1934

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May 15

U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Samuel Gompers and other union leaders for supporting a boycott at the Buck Stove and Range Co. in St. Louis, where workers were striking for a nine-hour day. A lower court had forbidden the boycott and sentenced the unionists to prison for refusing to obey the judge?s anti-boycott injunction - 1906

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May 14

Milwaukee brewery workers begin 10-week strike, demanding contracts comparable to East and West coast workers. The strike was won because Blatz Brewery accepts their demands, but Blatz was ousted from the Brewers Association for ?unethical? business methods - 1953

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