Chicago's first Trades Assembly, formed three years earlier, sponsors a general strike by thousands of workers to enforce the state's new 8-hour-day law. The one-week strike was unsuccessful - 1867
Mary Harris ?Mother? Jones born in County Cork, Ireland - 1830
(The Autobiography of Mother Jones: Mary Harris Jones??Mother Jones??was the most dynamic woman ever to grace the American labor movement. Employers and politicians around the turn of the century called her ?the most dangerous woman in America? and rebellious working men and women loved her as they never loved anyone else.)