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August 3In 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) strike against the Federal Aviation Administration began. President Ronald Reagan fired the workers three days later. August 7In 1890, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World, was born. For additional information about Ms. Flynn, Click Here. August 16George Meany, the American Federation of Labor president who helped facilitate the partnership with the Congress of Industrial Organizations to form the AFL-CIO, was born in 1894. A plumber by trade, he became the first AFL-CIO president. August 22Barbers of Battle Creek, Michigan organized a union, elected officers, and appointed trustees in 1890. August 23Massachusetts labor activists and anarchists Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in 1927. They were arrested in 1920 on charges of murdering a shoe factory paymaster and convicted in questionable testamony and circumstantial evidence. "It is true, indeed, that they can execute the body, but they cannot execute the idea which is bound to live." --Nicolo Sacco August 24In 1827, the Mechanics Gazette, the first US labor paper, was published in Philadelphia. August 25A small group of black employees of the Pullman Company established the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in New York City in 1925. A. Philip Randolph was invited to address the group and became its first organizer. August 26Women's Equity Day. Anniversary of certification as part of the US Constitution, in 1920, of the 19th Amendment, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex with regard to voting. August 28In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr, made his famous "I have a dream..." speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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