2003 Penny Singleton, actress/labor activist, Blondie, dies at 95
1994 Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (Plan of Labor, Nobel 1969), dies at 91
1993 Alex Lyon, English Labor Lower house leader (1966-83), dies at 61
1992 Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies
1992 Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends
1989 Polish labor union granted legal status
1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados
1982 Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions
1980 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
1980 Solidarity labor union in Poland forms
1980 Poland's Solidarity labor union forms
1980 George Meany, labor leader, dies at 86
1979 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
1976 Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract
1970 Players and management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000
1967 A's drop grievance filed with National Labor Relations against C Finley
1965 Frances Perkins, U.S. 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at 83
1964 Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract
1961 Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education and Labor
1960 Broadway theaters close, labor dispute between owners and Actors Equity
1952 Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index
1948 Peter JM Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor, dies at 77
1946 Robert Reich, U.S. Sec of Labor, Clinton
1946 KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections
1946 Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms
1946 United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor
1945 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms
1944 Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany
1944 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor
1943 Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
1943 Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry
1942 Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps"
1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
1942 National War Labor Board created
1941 Ann Dore McLaughlin, U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1987-
1941 German occupiers begin youth labor
1940 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
1940 Ed Garvey, labor leader, Major League Baseball Players Assn
1939 Lynn Martin, U.S. secretary of Labor, 1991-93
1938 U.S. forbids child labor in factories
1935 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs National Labor Relations Act
1933 Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
1933 Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member
1933 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor
1930 William E Brock, Sen-D, /U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1985-87
1930 Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies
1930 Child labor laws established in Belgium
1929 Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor)
1928 Albert Shanker, American labor leader, Amer Fed of Teachers
1927 Cesar Chavez, born in Yuma, Arizona, farm labor leader, United Farm Workers
1926 Railway Labor Act became law
1924 Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74
1924 British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with U.S.S.R.
1924 Josef Labor, composer, dies at 82
1924 Child labor laws strengthened in Holland
1924 Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but Gen Ludendorff acquitted
1923 Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister
1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws
1922 Jef Houthuys, chairman Belgian labor union, ACV 1968-87
1921 Supreme Court rules labor injunctions and picketing unconstitutional
1920 Farmer Labor Party organized, Chicago
1920 U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
1920 Frances K Bairstow, educator/labor relations consultant
1919 Labor conference committee in U.S. urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week
1919 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
1918 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional
1918 US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor
1916 Dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union rep
1916 Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1915 Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder
1915 Moe Biller, New York City, labor union officer, AFL-CIO, Postal Workers
1914 Theodore Kheel, labor negotiator, Fair Employment Practices
1914 High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
1913 Jimmy Hoffa, missing labor leader
1913 Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments
1912 Victor Reuther, Wheeling, West Virginia, labor leader
1911 Leonard Woodcock, labor leader, UAW
1909 Roy Reuther, Wheeling, West Virginia, labor leader
1909 Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
1908 James "Jimmy" Johnson, English Labor MP, 1950-59, 64-83
1907 Walter Reuther, labor leader/president, UAW and CIO
1905 Carroll Wright appointed 1st U.S. Commissioner of Labor
1903 U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor forms
1895 French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms
1895 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite
1894 Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General of Labor
1894 George Meany, New York City, labor leader, headed AFL-CIO
1894 Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday
1893 British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)
1892 David Dubinsky, labor leader, Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom
1889 Belgium rules on women/child labor law
1889 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader, Railroad Porter's Union
1888 Congress creates Department of Labor
1887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
1887 Oregon becomes 1st U.S. state to make Labor Day a holiday
1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
1885 John Curtin, Victoria, Australian PM, Labor, 1941-45
1884 Rose Schneiderman, New York state department of labor sect, 1937-44
1883 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions
1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in New York City
1881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
1881 Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader
1880 Frances Perkins, 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position, Labor
1878 Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo Ohio)
1877 Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention
1874 Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force
1874 1st Chamber accept law against child labor
1874 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
1873 William Green, president of American Federation of Labor, 1924-52
1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
1871 Petrus J M Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor, 1918-25
1869 Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms
1869 Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
1869 Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention
1855 Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
1850 Samuel Gompers, Dutch/U.S. 1st president, American Federation of Labor
1842 Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889)
1842 Josef Labor, composer
1842 1st U.S. child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)
1837 Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch, lib, minister, child labor laws
1834 1st U.S. labor newspaper, "The Man," published, New York City
1834 President Jackson orders 1st use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute
1787 Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor
1784 Cesar F Cassini "the Thury", French astronomer (geodesic labor), dies
1714 Cesar F Cassini, de Thury, French astronomer, geodesic labor
1648 1st U.S. labor organization forms, Boston Shoemakers
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