A total of 29 strike leaders are charged with treason?plotting "to incite insurrection, rebellion & war against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania"?for daring to strike the Carnegie Steel Co. in Homestead, Pa. Jurors refuse to convict them - 1892
A report by the Labor Department?s Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that the average weekly take-home pay of a factory worker with three dependents is now $94.87 - 1962
The International Workingmen?s Association is founded in London. It was an international organization trying to unite a variety of different left-wing, socialist, communist and anarchist political groups and unions. It functioned for about 12 years, growing to a membership declared to be eight million, before being disbanded at its Philadelphia conference in 1876, victim of infighting brought on by the wide variety of members? philosophies - 1864