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5 days ago · This resulted in a parade of some 10,000 workers on September 5, 1882. By 1885 Labor Day celebrations were being held in a number of states, and in 1894 U.S. President Grover Cleveland signed into law a bill making Labor Day a national holiday.
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5 days ago · Great Britain struggled with low growth and recession during most of the second half of the 1920s. The country did not slip into severe depression, however, until early 1930, and its peak-to-trough decline in industrial production was roughly one-third that of the United States.
2 days ago · On Memorial Day, Sunday, May 30, 1937, several hundred individuals—white, Black, and Latino men, women, and children—were peacefully protesting at Republic Steel on Chicago’s far Southeast Side. The demonstrators presented the steel company with demands that included recognizing their union, ratifying a labor agreement, raising wages ...
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. A basic tenet of work is ...
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2 days ago · Graph of U.S. Unemployment Rate, 1930-1945. The unemployment rate rose sharply during the Great Depression and reached its peak at the moment Franklin D. Roosevelt took office. As New Deal programs were enacted, the unemployment rate gradually lowered.
May 30th: 1937 Memorial Day Massacre On this day in labor history, the “Memorial Day Massacre” occurred at the Republic Steel plant in Chicago, Illinois. The massacre was a part of the broader Little Steel Strike, which saw workers strike against smaller companies, like Republic Steel, Bethlehem Steel, and National Steel.
1 day ago · Atrocities. Twenty-six republicans were assassinated by Franco's Nationalists at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, between August and September 1936. This mass grave is located at the small town of Estépar, in Burgos Province. The excavation occurred in July–August 2014.
