President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces plans for the Civil Works Administration to create four million additional jobs for the Depression-era unemployed.
Some 1,300 building trades workers in eastern Massachusetts participated in
a general strike on all military work in the area to protest the use of
open-shop (a worksite in which union membership is not required as a
condition of employment) builders. The strike held on for a week in the face
of threats from the U.S. War Department ? 1917
Some 12,000 television and movie writers begin what was to become a three-month strike against producers over demands for an increase in pay for movies and television shows released on DVD and for a bigger share of the revenue from work delivered over the Internet - 2007