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1607 - (answer)founding of the Jamestown colony by Captain John Smith
1660 - (answer)combined slave and indentured servant armed rebellion against Virginia planters
1734 - (answer)first recorded strike to protect fair prices by the bakers of Boston
1747 - (answer)British Royal Navy tried to forcibly impress colonials of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,
causing sailors to resist captains at sea and mutiny against officers; origin of the name of the strike
1805 - (answer)the first association (Philadelphia cordwainers) was indicted on charges of forming a
combination and conspiracy to raise wages; judiciary ruled on the side of the employer
1832 - (answer)journeyman ship carpenters in Massachusetts struck for a ten-hour day and for personal
freedom
1835 - (answer)Philadelphia Irish immigrants launched a citywide general strike for the ten-hour work
day
1859 - (answer)Grand Association of Pennsylvania called and succeeded in a general strike to restore
pay cuts
1860 - (answer)strike by Lynn shoemakers demanding that shoe manufacturers adopt a standardized
wage schedule; March 7: women strikers marched for fair compensation
1875 - (answer)textile mill workers of Fall River struck against a wage cut for eight weeks before being
forced to sign "yellow dog" contracts; long strike at Pennsylvania coal fields turned bloody after
employers called union leaders communists, imported scab labor, and hired armed company police
force to protect them
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1877 - (answer)workers on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad protested a wage cut by seizing and
stopping trains and surrounding round houses, thus paralyzing the nation's strongest corporations;
twelve strikers were killed in St. Louis when unions took over the city for a few days; twenty protesters
shot by state militiamen in Pittsburg, provoking an assault on railroad property
September 5, 1882 - (answer)first Labor Day parade
May 1-4, 1886 - (answer)general strike of workers led by skilled tradesmen demanding an eight hour
work day; "Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will!"; ended with the
Haymarket Square bombing after which police opened fire on the crowd
1890 - (answer)mutual aid helped the Carpenters in many cities strike successfully for the eight hour day
1892 - (answer)union carpenters in Holyoke, Massachusetts struck for a nine-hour day and employer
guarantees that they would hire only union labor; contractors agreed to compromise only when the
Holyoke Central Labor Council organized other trades in support of the Carpenters
battles between Pinkerton detectives and pay cut strikers in Homestead, Pennsylvania led to the defeat
of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Tin, and Steel Workers
1894 - (answer)beginning of an economic depression; American Railway Union supported the car
builder's strike in Pullman, Illinois by calling for a boycott of trains hauling Pullman's sleeping cars and
paralyzing interstate commerce; ceased when faced with federal court injunction
1902 - (answer)A.F.L.-affiliated Hatters Union called for a national consumer boycott against a non-
union company in Danbury, Connecticut but were charged with conspiracy in restraint of trade *using a
provision of anti-trust laws*; U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the union on the grounds that they had
engaged in an illegal secondary boycott
1911 - (answer)legislators allied with labor to reduce the work week of textile workers to fifty-four
hours; Massachusetts lawmakers approved a system of workmen's compensation after lobbying by
labor and the Boston Chamber of Commerce
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1607 - (answer)founding of the Jamestown colony by Captain John Smith
1660 - (answer)combined slave and indentured servant armed rebellion against Virginia planters
1734 - (answer)first recorded strike to protect fair prices by the bakers of Boston
1747 - (answer)British Royal Navy tried to forcibly impress colonials of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,
causing sailors to resist captains at sea and mutiny against officers; origin of the name of the strike
1805 - (answer)the first association (Philadelphia cordwainers) was indicted on charges of forming a
combination and conspiracy to raise wages; judiciary ruled on the side of the employer
1832 - (answer)journeyman ship carpenters in Massachusetts struck for a ten-hour day and for personal
freedom
1835 - (answer)Philadelphia Irish immigrants launched a citywide general strike for the ten-hour work
day
1859 - (answer)Grand Association of Pennsylvania called and succeeded in a general strike to restore
pay cuts
1860 - (answer)strike by Lynn shoemakers demanding that shoe manufacturers adopt a standardized
wage schedule; March 7: women strikers marched for fair compensation
1875 - (answer)textile mill workers of Fall River struck against a wage cut for eight weeks before being
forced to sign "yellow dog" contracts; long strike at Pennsylvania coal fields turned bloody after
employers called union leaders communists, imported scab labor, and hired armed company police
force to protect them
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1877 - (answer)workers on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad protested a wage cut by seizing and
stopping trains and surrounding round houses, thus paralyzing the nation's strongest corporations;
twelve strikers were killed in St. Louis when unions took over the city for a few days; twenty protesters
shot by state militiamen in Pittsburg, provoking an assault on railroad property
September 5, 1882 - (answer)first Labor Day parade
May 1-4, 1886 - (answer)general strike of workers led by skilled tradesmen demanding an eight hour
work day; "Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will!"; ended with the
Haymarket Square bombing after which police opened fire on the crowd
1890 - (answer)mutual aid helped the Carpenters in many cities strike successfully for the eight hour day
1892 - (answer)union carpenters in Holyoke, Massachusetts struck for a nine-hour day and employer
guarantees that they would hire only union labor; contractors agreed to compromise only when the
Holyoke Central Labor Council organized other trades in support of the Carpenters
battles between Pinkerton detectives and pay cut strikers in Homestead, Pennsylvania led to the defeat
of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Tin, and Steel Workers
1894 - (answer)beginning of an economic depression; American Railway Union supported the car
builder's strike in Pullman, Illinois by calling for a boycott of trains hauling Pullman's sleeping cars and
paralyzing interstate commerce; ceased when faced with federal court injunction
1902 - (answer)A.F.L.-affiliated Hatters Union called for a national consumer boycott against a non-
union company in Danbury, Connecticut but were charged with conspiracy in restraint of trade *using a
provision of anti-trust laws*; U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the union on the grounds that they had
engaged in an illegal secondary boycott
1911 - (answer)legislators allied with labor to reduce the work week of textile workers to fifty-four
hours; Massachusetts lawmakers approved a system of workmen's compensation after lobbying by
labor and the Boston Chamber of Commerce
