When their demand that only union men be employed was refused, members of the Western Federation of Miners dynamited and destroyed the $250,000 mill of the Bunker Hill Company at Wardner, Idaho ? 1899
Congress creates OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The AFL-CIO sets April 28 as ?Workers Memorial Day? to honor the hundreds of thousands of workers killed and injured on the job every year - 1970.
President Dwight Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10450: Security Requirements for Government Employment. The order listed ?sexual perversion? as a condition for firing a federal employee and for denying employment to potential applicants - 1953
Also on this date: First strike for 10 hour day, by Boston carpenters?James Oppenheim?s poem ?Bread and Roses? published?click here for complete postings.
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