Responding to a 15 percent wage cut, women textile workers in Lowell, Mass., organize a ?turn-out??a strike?in protest. The action failed. Two years later they formed the Factory Girl?s Association in response to a rent hike in company boarding houses and the increase was rescinded. One worker?s diary recounts a ?stirring speech? of resistance by a co-worker, 11-year-old Harriet Hanson Robinson - 1834
One of the first American labor newspapers, The Man, is published in New York City. It cost 1? and, according to The History of American Journalism, ?died an early death.? Another labor paper, N.Y. Daily Sentinel, had been launched four years earlier - 1834