Representatives of the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers meet in St. Louis with 20 other organizations to plan the founding convention of the People?s Party. Objectives: end political corruption, spread the wealth, and combat the oppression of the rights of workers and farmers - 1892
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they formed the Factory Girl?s Association in response to a rent hike in company boarding houses and the increase was rescinded.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