George Henry Evans publishes the first issue of the Working Man?s Advocate, ?edited by a Mechanic? for the ?useful and industrious classes? in New York City. He focused on the inequities between the ?portion of society living in luxury and idleness? and those ?groaning under the oppressions and miseries imposed on them.? - 1829
Ed Meese, attorney general in the Ronald Reagan administration, urges employers to begin spying on workers "in locker rooms, parking lots, shipping and mail room areas and even the nearby taverns" to try to catch them using drugs - 1986
Union organizer and anarchist Luisa Capetillo is born in Ariecibo, Puerto Rico. She organized tobacco and other agricultural workers in Puerto Rico and later in New York and Florida. In 1916 she led a successful sugar cane strike of more than 40,000 workers on the island.