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September 3

African-American cotton pickers organize and strike in Lee County, Tex. against miserably low wages and other injustices, including a growers? arrangement with local law enforcement to round up blacks on vagrancy charges, then force them to work off their fines on select plantations.

September 3

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September 2

White and Chinese immigrants battle in Rock Springs, Wyo. fueled by racial tensions and the practice of Union Pacific Raiload of hiring lower-paid Chinese over whites.

September 2

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September 1

The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers is founded at a meeting in Chicago, the product of two separate brotherhoods created over the previous 13 years - 1893

September 1

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August 31

John Reed forms the Communist Labor Party in Chicago. The Party?s motto: "Workers of the world unite!" - 1919

August 31

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August 30

Delegates from several East Coast cities meet in convention to form the National Trades' Union, uniting craft unions to oppose "the most unequal and unjustifiable distribution of the wealth of society in the hands of a few individuals."

August 30