Int?l Hod Carriers & Building Laborers? Union (today?s Laborers? Int?l Union) is founded, as 25 delegates from 23 Local Unions in 17 cities?representing 8,186 Laborers?meet in Washington, D.C. - 1903
Birth date of Frances Perkins, named secretary of labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first woman to hold a cabinet-level office - 1880