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