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03/30/1852 |
Ohio restricts hours for women workers |
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09/26/1859 |
Striking miners attack "blackleg" workers in the Pittsburgh coalfields |
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11/05/1859 |
Meeting in Kentucky protests the economic domination of the East Coast |
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01/23/1860 |
Committee to help survivors of the Pemberton Mills Disaster say sufficient funds have been collected |
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02/20/1860 |
Stone cutters working on the new Catholic Cathedral in New York City down tools |
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02/22/1860 |
Thousands of shoemakers go on strike for higher wages in Lynn, Massachusetts |
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02/27/1860 |
Seven hundred striking shoemakers march from Lynn to Marblehead |
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03/08/1860 |
Undetered by heavy snow, women shoe worker strikers parade in Lynn, Massachusetts |
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05/08/1863 |
Twelve railwaymen in Michigan form the Brotherhood of the Footboard, first permanent engineers' union |
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05/23/1863 |
Ferdinand Lasalle founds the first worker's party in Germany, forerunner of today's Social Democratic Party |
