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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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Indian National Congress is Established. The party will take the helm of India's independence movement
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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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President William McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz, an anarachist, leading vice President Theodore Roosevelt President.
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Massachusetts adopts the mimimum wage law.
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Western Front, the first battles of the Marne and Ypres establish a line that will more or less hold for the next four years. Exuberance is still high on both sides, but will dissipate as thousands of German, French, and British soldiers sacrifice their lives in battles over a few miles of barbed wire and mud.
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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.
