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