Members of the American Railway Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, refuse to
handle Pullman cars, in solidarity with Pullman strikers. Two dozen strikers
were killed over the course of the strike - 1894
More than 8,000 people attend the dedication ceremony for The Haymarket
Martyrs Monument in Chicago, honoring those framed and executed for the
bombing at Haymarket Square on May 4, 1886 - 1893
Fair Labor Standards Act passes Congress, banning child labor and setting
the 40-hour work week - 1938
Birth of Albert Parsons, Haymarket martyr - 1848
Birth of Agnes Nestor, president of the International Glove Workers Union
and longtime leader of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League. She began
work in a glove factory at age 14 - 1880
Charles Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, goes to Butte,
Mont. in an attempt to mediate a conflict between factions of the miner?s
local there. It didn?t go well. Gunfight in the union hall killed one man;
Moyer and other union officers left the building, which was then leveled in
a dynamite blast - 1914