When their demand that only union men be employed was refused, members of the Western Federation of Miners dynamited and destroyed the $250,000 mill of the Bunker Hill Company at Wardner, Idaho ? 1899
Congress creates OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The AFL-CIO sets April 28 as ?Workers Memorial Day? to honor the hundreds of thousands of workers killed and injured on the job every year - 1970.
President Dwight Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10450: Security Requirements for Government Employment. The order listed ?sexual perversion? as a condition for firing a federal employee and for denying employment to potential applicants - 1953
Also on this date: First strike for 10 hour day, by Boston carpenters?James Oppenheim?s poem ?Bread and Roses? published?click here for complete postings.