1797 Albert Gallatin originated profit sharing at his glass works in New Geneva, Pennsylvania. http://www.answers.com/topic/albertgallatin-jpeg

In 1806 the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers (Shoemakers) striked for higher wages but were convicted of an illegal combination and bankrupted http://www.thehcc.org/backgrnd.htm

1815 Benjamin Lundy formed an anti-slavery society called "the Union Humane Society". http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~henryhowesbook/belmont.html

A carpenter in Wellington, New Zealand, Samuel Parnell (1810-1890) who initiated a successful strike for the eight hour working day. http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl19510.htm

1869 Uriah Smith Stephens founded a labor union called the Knights of Labor for skilled and unskilled workers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Uriah-stephens-circa-1900.gif

1874 The police prevent a demonstration by working-men on Tompkins’ Square, N.Y. City http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/jbrown/daysdoings/dd3.htm

Federal Troops were used to settle The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_railroad_strike_of_1877

1882 The first labor day parade at Union Square in New York City http://www.pjvoice.com/v16/16400groups.html

1893 President Cleveland used Federal troops to stop the Pullman Strike http://vi.uh.edu/pages/buzzmat/1378outlines.htm

1893 President Cleveland used Federal troops to stop the Pullman Strike http://vi.uh.edu/pages/buzzmat/1378outlines.htm

1894 Eugene V. Debs a socialist and union organizer led the American Railroad Union during the Pullman strike http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/Debs.htm

The coal miners strike of 1902 was led by John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers Union http://www.answers.com/topic/coal-strike-of-1902

Andrew Carnegie, William Jennings Bryan, Railroad builder James J. Hill with labor union leader John Mitchell (2nd from right) http://www.agribusinesscouncil.org/bryan.htm

1903 Mary Harris Jones, "Mother Jones", led child workers in demanding a 55 hour work week. http://www.stfrancis.edu/ba/ghkickul/stuwebs/bbios/biograph/maryharrisjones.htm

1905 IWW Industrial Workers of the World poster. http://www.geocities.com/athens/atrium/6261/

1886 Samuel Gompers presidents of the Cigar Makers Union organized the AFL - American Federation of Labor a federation of skilled worker unions. 1908 Picture http://homicide.northwestern.edu/context/timeline/1908/10/

1909 20,000 workers in the International Ladies Garment Worker's union were on strike and many arrested http://jewschool.com/2005/11/22/96-years-of-jewish-womens-resistance/

1910 Child labor in the mines http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/scopes/default.html

1911 A Labor Union mourns the loss of 150 employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. who were locked in and perished in a factory fire. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/triangleimages.html

1911 Child labor http://www.tidesinstitute.org/tides/exhibition/exhibition.html

1912 A parade of children strikers at Lawrence Mass led by the IWW - International Workers of the World labor union. http://www.workerseducation.org/crutch/others/dosch.html

1914 A trolley is overturned during a strike for union recognition in St. John, Canada http://www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca/heritage/streetcars/TheStrike.htm

1915 Poet and Labor Leader Joe Hill, arrested and executed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill

1917 Railway workers strike http://events.mnhs.org/timepieces/SourceDetail.cfm?SourceID=348

1917 Frank Little was lynched while organizing a strike at the Anaconda Co. in Butte, Montana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Frank-little-d-1917.jpg

1919 A steel worker strike in Gary, Indiana http://www.northwestindiana.com/photos/displayimage.php?album=topn&cat=0&pos=7

1919 A picnic organized to raise funds for IWW legal defense http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/strike/accountsphotos.htm

Union meeting at Seattle Labor Temple in the 1920's http://www.ufcw81.org/PublisherFiles/middle_years.htm

1920 In this historical movie, during a miner's union drive at Matewan two miners and seven detectives were killed. Also the Mayor was killed and 15 months later Police Chief Sid Hatfield was killed. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/sgabriel/filmcourse_calendar.html

Strike by Sergei Eisenstein (1924) an early Russian movie. http://www.filmlinc.com/archive/nyff/strike.htm

Union buying power. http://www.laborarts.org/exhibits/sampler/image.cfm?ID=5

1932 David Dubinsky became President if the ILGWU and served until 1964 http://www.laborphotos.cornell.edu/agreement_browse.php?cPath=24_79&browse=1&Kheel=14nhbak9q5hv1rmestu3cv8i66

1934 Striking truck drivers in Minneapolis, Minnesota http://www.historicaldocuments.com/NationalLaborRelationsActlg.htm

1935 President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act. Behind Roosevelt is Frances Perkins the Secretary of Labor. http://www.ssa.gov/history/fdrsign.html

Strike for a living wage. http://www.mackinac.org/4020

1937 A sitdown strike at Fisher Body in Flint Michigan http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=150&category=business

Labor union officials including Walter Reuther on the right about to be attacked by Ford personell on the left. 1937 http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF0605/Samuelson/Samuelson.html

Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, was the principal architect of the Fair Labor Standards Act passed in 1938. http://www.wa.gov/esd/ui/ui101/frances.htm

Labor holiday, a day of rest, originated in 1882 http://www.laborarts.org/exhibits/sampler/image.cfm?ID=5

1948 Walter Reuther and his wife in Detroit Hospital after an assassination attempt. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAreuther.htm

1948 President Truman vetod the Taft Hartley Bill but Congress overrode the veto and the bill passed. The Act listed prohibited unfair labor activities on the part of the unions, unfair practices on the part of management were already listed in the NLRA law in 1935 http://www.laborphotos.cornell.edu/agreement_browse.php?cPath=24_119&browse=1&Kheel=14nhbak9q5hv1rmestu3cv8i66

1950 Union educational literature at UAW local 195 http://209.202.75.197/digi/sar/part7.htm

Credit unions http://www.pendle.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=331&pageNumber=2

1962 President John F. Kennedy dedicating co-operative housing built by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. http://www.laborphotos.cornell.edu/agreement_browse.php?cPath=24_29&browse=1&Kheel=14nhbak9q5hv1rmestu3cv8i66

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1963 John L. Lewis http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-29861

1963 John L. Lewis http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-29861

1963 John L. Lewis President of the CIO Congress of Industrial Organizations. http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-29861

Walter Reuther http://www.local174.com/Walterreuther.html

Jimmy Hoffa dissapeared in 1975 http://www.newvideo.com/productdetail.html?productid=NV-AAE-72904

1992 Freemasons at their annual meeting. One of the oldest labor unions. http://www.unexplainedstuff.com/Secret-Societies/The-Freemasons.html