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Today in labor history July 09 Five thousand demonstrators rally at the state capitol in Columbia, S

July 09

New England Telephone “girls” strike for seven-hour workday, $27 weekly pay after four years’ service - 1923

July 9, 1952 - The first U.S. law with basic safety standards to prevent mine disasters was enacted.

United Packinghouse, Food & Allied Workers merge with Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen - 1968


Five thousand demonstrators rally at the state capitol in Columbia, S.C. in support of the “Charleston Five,” labor activists charged with felony rioting during a police attack on a 2000 longshoremen’s picket of a non-union crew unloading a ship - 2001

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