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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 Milt 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 pres, 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, sec-gen 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

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[ney G] 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 hr 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-hr 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

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 hr 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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