Eugene V. Debs, labor leader and socialist, sentenced to 10 years for opposing World War I. While in jail Debs received one million votes for president - 1918
Some 75,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia end a 10-week strike after winning an 8-hour day, semi-monthly pay, and the abolition of overpriced company-owned stores, where they had been forced to shop. (Remember the song, "Sixteen Tons," by coal miner?s son Merle Travis, in which there?s this line: "I owe my soul to the company store.") - 1897
In Pennsylvania, Polish, Lithuanian and Slovak miners are gunned down by the Latimer Mine?s sheriff deputies?19 dead, more than 50 wounded?during a peaceful march from Hazelton to Latimer. Some 3,000 were marching for collective bargaining and civil liberty. The shooters were tried for murder but the jury failed to convict ? 1897