Nearly 10,000 demonstrators celebrate textile workers? win of a 10-percent pay hike and grievance committees after a one-month strike, Lowell, Mass. - 1912
In Grand Rapids, Michigan, the nation?s ?Furniture City,? more than 6,000 immigrant workers?Germans, Dutch, Lithuanians and Poles?put down their tools and struck 59 factories for four months in what was to become known as the Great Furniture Strike - 1919
The Supreme Court holds that a maximum-hours law for New York bakery workers is unconstitutional under the due process clause of the 14th amendment - 1905