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
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