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  The FOTLU was the federalation of labor unions created in Pettysburg.
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  In the first labor parade 30,000 labor workers marched in New York.
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  Samuel Gompers sets up the American Ferderation of Labor a collection of trade unions that will play a major role in labor movement.
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  Massachusetts adopts the mimimum wage law.
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  The adamson act establishes an 8 hour work day for employess of interstate railroad.
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  Frances Perkins becomes Franklin Rosevelts's Secretary of labor, the first woman in us history to hold a cabient post.