President Roosevelt announces the end of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), concluding the four-year run of one of the American government's most ambitious public works programs. It helped create jobs for roughly 8.5 million people during the Great Depression and left a legacy of highways and public buildings, among other public gains - 1943
Textile strikers win 10-hour day, Fall River, Mass. - 1866
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passes an ordinance setting an 8-hour workday for all city employees - 1867
IWW union Brotherhood of Timber Workers organized - 1910
?Fighting Mary? Eliza McDowell, also known as the ?Angel of the Stockyards,? born in Chicago. As a social worker she helped organize the first women?s local of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union in 1902 - 1854