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Today in labor history: Immigrant rights mega marches sweep U.S.
April 10, 2013Today in 2006, tens of thousands of immigrants demonstrated in 100 U.S. cities in a national day of action billed as a campaign for immigrants' dignity.
Read moreToday in labor history: Congress approves landmark WPA
April 8, 2013On April 8, 1935, with the nation in the depths of the Depression, Congress voted to approve the Works Progress Administration.
Read moreToday in labor history: Miners at Pittston strike
April 5, 2013On this day in 1989, the United Mine Workers began their historic strike against Pittston Coal.
Read moreToday in labor history: Memphis 1968, we remember
April 4, 2013An assassin's bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers.
Read moreToday in labor history: N.J. mill strikers urged to keep fighting
April 3, 2013Striking silk mill workers in Paterson, New Jersey were increasingly at odds with police, who repeatedly crushed their efforts to hold rallies.
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