Clerks, teamsters and building service workers at Boston Stores in Milwaukee strike at the beginning of the Christmas rush. The strike won widespread support?at one point 10,000 pickets jammed the sidewalks around the main store?but ultimately was lost. Workers returned to the job in mid-January with a small pay raise and no union recognition - 1934
Six young women burn to death and 19 more die when they leap from the fourth-story windows of a blazing factory in Newark, N.J. The floors and stairs were wooden; the only door through which the women could flee was locked - 1910