Birth of Albert Parsons, Haymarket martyr - 1848
Birth of Agnes Nestor, president of the International Glove Workers Union
and longtime leader of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League. She began
work in a glove factory at age 14 - 1880
Charles Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, goes to Butte,
Mont. in an attempt to mediate a conflict between factions of the miner?s
local there. It didn?t go well. Gunfight in the union hall killed one man;
Moyer and other union officers left the building, which was then leveled in
a dynamite blast - 1914
In England, a compassionate parliament declares that children can't be
required to work more than 12 hours a day. And they must have an hours'
instruction in the Christian Religion every Sunday and not be required to
sleep more than two in a bed - 1802