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1996 Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65
1993 Cesar Chavez, U.S. farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66 1991 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers 1991 Railroad workers go on strike in U.S. 1991 Frans Dohmen, union leader (Netherlands Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81 1991 AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable 1990 British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel) 1987 I. W. Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77), dies at 87 1987 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct 1987 163 day strike against Deere and Co ends, workers accept wage freeze 1987 United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp 1986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead 1986 20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines 1986 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg 1985 Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers 1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike 1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike 1982 Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53 1981 10,000 copper workers in Chile strike 1981 Almost 1 million West German metal workers in strike 1981 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident 1980 In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk, Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike 1980 Polish railway workers block railway to Russia 1978 Iranian oil workers go on strike 1977 Miltitary workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa 1971 Muriel Kirkland, actress (Nana, Fast Workers), dies of emphysema at 68 1970 Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in New York City's Wall Street 1970 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike 1970 Joseph A. Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers president, murdered 1970 Netherlands Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms 1968 Belgian construction workers strike 1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured 1966 Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers 1964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam 1963 Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32 1963 200,000 French mine workers strike 1962 North Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party 1962 French and Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel 1962 St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands 1956 650,000 U.S. steel workers go on strike 1956 Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp 1952 M Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of South African Mine Workers' Union 1952 650,000 metal workers go on strike in U.S. 1952 Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers 1948 Walter P Reuther, President (United Auto Workers), shot at his home 1947 United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL 1946 Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam and Amsterdam 1946 400,000 U.S. mine workers strike 1946 United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor 1945 General Motors workers go on strike 1944 Revolution by workers and students in Guatemala 1944 Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms 1944 Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers 1944 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw," executed at Camp Vught 1943 Riot at Mobile Alabama shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers 1940 Nazi's forbid non-professional auto workers 1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas 1939 Franklin A Sonn, union leader, South African workers 1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers 1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour 1937 U.S. Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day 1936 United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant 1932 200,000 English textile workers strike 1930 Karoly Grosz, born in Miskolc, Hungary, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism 1929 Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president 1929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen 1927 Cesar Chavez, born in Yuma, Arizona, farm labor leader, United Farm Workers 1926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike 1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners 1925 VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam 1925 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election 1924 Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut 1923 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg 1923 Workers Party of America (New York City) becomes official Communist Party 1923 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die 1923 Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages 1922 Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto 1921 Syd Vincent, British mine workers leader 1921 Black Friday- Labour Party strike of mine workers fails 1919 U.S. police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers 1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hour day and minimum wages 1917 Limburgse mine workers strike 1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers 1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets 1917 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets 1916 Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname 1915 Moe Biller, New York City, labor union officer, AFL-CIO, Postal Workers 1915 Ron Smith, union leader, British Postal Workers 1914 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike 1913 Explosion at Dawson New Mexico coal mine kills 263 mine workers 1912 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia 1911 United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hour day 1910 Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies 1909 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal 1909 Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands 1909 Lord Collison, British union leader, agriculture workers 1907 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn 1907 Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers 1905 Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages 1905 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St. Petersburg, Russia 1905 Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands 1905 Netherlands Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms 1904 W A "Tony" Boyle, United Mine Workers president 1903 Muriel Kirkland, Yonkers, New York, actress, Fast Workers, Hold Your Man 1903 Dutch railroad workers strike 1902 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (New York City) 1902 Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1 1900 Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike 1899 7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal 1899 National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms 1898 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike 1897 Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20 1894 Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers 1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company 1894 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase 1892 Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania fire on scabs, killing 7 1890 United Mine Workers of America forms 1889 Chaplain Ariens founds 1st roman catholic workers group 1889 Bessie Hillman, founder, Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America 1889 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International 1885 Henry de Man, Belgium, sociologist/chairman, Belgian Workers Party 1884 Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed 1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in New York City 1880 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, New York 1880 John L. Lewis, union leader, United Mine Workers, 1920-60 1877 Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9 1873 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname 1868 President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hour day 1866 John Eigenhuis, writer, Tough Workers 1865 Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives 1862 Auguste Lumiere, made 1st movie, Workers Leaving Lumiere Factory 1860 Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages 1848 Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris 1805 Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary, workers' leader |
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