One of the first American labor newspapers, The Man, is published in New York City. It cost 1? and, according to The History of American Journalism, ?died an early death.? Another labor paper, N.Y. Daily Sentinel, had been launched four years earlier - 1834
Sixty-three sit-down strikers, demanding recognition of their union, are tear-gassed and driven from two Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. plants in Chicago. Two years later the U.S. Supreme Court declared sit-down strikes illegal. The tactic had been a major industrial union organizing tool - 1937
Leonora O?Reilly was born in New York. The daughter of Irish immigrants, she began working in a factory at 11, joined the Knights of Labor at 16, and was a volunteer investigator of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911. She was a founding member of the Women?s Trade Union League - 1870