On the orders of President Roosevelt, the U.S. Army seizes the Chicago headquarters of the unionized Montgomery Ward & Co. after management defies the National Labor Relations Board - 1944
The New York Times declares the struggle for an eight-hour workday to be ?un-American? and calls public demonstrations for the shorter hours ?labor disturbances brought about by foreigners.? Other publications declare that an eight-hour workday day would bring about ?loafing and gambling, rioting, debauchery and drunkenness? - 1886
The International Longshoremen?s and Warehousemen?s Union halts shipping on the West Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Philadelphia journalist whom many believed was on death row because he was an outspoken African-American - 1999