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May 6, 1937
http://nhlabornews.com/2014/05/may-6-1937/
400 African-American women tobacco stemmers walk out at the I.N. Vaughan Company in Richmond. Within 48 hours, the strikers secured wage increases, a forty-hour week, and union recognition. [Photo: A group of women at work in an unidentified Lexington, Kentucky, tobacco warehouse, December 1939.]
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About Today In Labor History
The NHLN has joined with multiple other websites to help highlight some of the struggles that workers have faced throughout our history. We want everyone to know what the workers of the past had to endure for the rights we take for granted now. If you do not learn from the past, you are doomed to repeat it.