Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is beheaded during the French Revolution. When alerted that the peasants were suffering due to widespread bread shortages, lore has it that she replied, ?Let them eat cake.? In fact she never said that, but workers were, justifiably, ready to believe anything bad about their cold-hearted royalty - 1793
President Woodrow Wilson signs the Clayton Antitrust Act?often referred to as "Labor?s Magna Carta"?establishing that unions are not "conspiracies" under the law. It for the first time freed unions to strike, picket and boycott employers. In the years that followed, however, numerous state measures and negative court interpretations weakened the law - 1914