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Pullman strike
Pullman workers stopped working b/c of poor working conditions and they felt as though they weren't getting paid the right amount they should have been. -
Herrin massacre
Thirty-six people are killed, 21 of them non-union miners, during a coal-mine strike at Herrin, Illinois. -
All-China Federation of Trade Unions
The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) was officially founded. With 134 million members it is the largest trade union in the world. However many, such as the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, maintain the position that the ACFTU is not an independent trade union organization. -
coal workers march
Picketing coal miners marching under the banner of the Industrial Workers of the World were massacred in the Columbine mine massacre in the company town of Serene, Colorado. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression (also known in the U.K. as the Great Slump) was a dramatic, worldwide economic downturn beginning in some countries as early as 1928. -
Labor
Frances Perkins becomes Franklin Rosevelts's Secretary of labor, the first woman in us history to hold a cabient post.
