The pro-labor musical revue, ?Pins & Needles,? opens on Broadway with a cast
of International Ladies Garment Workers Union members. The show ran on
Friday and Saturday nights only, because of the casts? regular jobs. It ran
for 1,108 performances before closing - 1937
Six young women burn to death and 19 more die when they leap from the
fourth-story windows of a blazing factory in Newark, N.J. The floors and
stairs were wooden; the only door from which the women could flee was locked
- 1910
Teachers strike in St. Paul, Minn., the first organized walkout by teachers
in the country. The month-long ?strike for better schools? involving some
1,100 teachers -- and principals -- led to a number of reforms in the way
schools were administered and operated - 1946
Led by Samuel Gompers, who would later found the American Federation of
Labor, Cigarmakers International Union Local 144 is chartered in New York
City - 1875