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To see another month, clink on the appropriate link. The external links provided in these pages are for those interested in reading more on the various people and topics. These sites are not affiliated in any way with CWA Local 4319. Pictured above from left to right are Susan B. Anthony, a mine worker, and the old silk factory in Patterson, New Jersey. All pictures used in the Labor Calendar, unless otherwise indicated, are courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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February 1:National Freedom Day. Anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's approval, in 1865, of the 13th Amendment to the United States' Constitution which abolished slavery. February 4:Labor leader and Industrial Workers of the World co-founder William D. "Big Bill" Haywood was born in 1869. (Picture: American Heritage, June 1967) February 5:In 1830 the first daily labor paper, the New York Daily Sentinel, began publication. February 8:Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, factory inspector and labor leader, was born in 1864. She was appointed by American Federation of Labor President Samuel Gompers as the organization's first female general organizer. February 12:United Mine Workers President and founder of the Congress of Industrial Organizations John L. Lewis was born in 1880. He played a leading role in organizing drives of the 1930s which established trade unions among unskilled mass production workers. February 14:President Theodore Roosevelt signed a law creating the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1903. Ten years later, it was divided into two deparate government departments. February 15:Susan B. Anthony, female sufragist, women's rights advocate, and labor activist, was born in 1820. February 25:In 1913, 25,000 immigrant textile workers went on strike against Paterson, New Jersey's silk factories in one of the most heroic struggles for justice in American labor history. Workers were forced by their employers to work 10 hours a day for as little as six dollars a week. Despite the workers' steadfast courage the mass arrests, lack of financial support, police harassment, and divisions between skilled and unskilled workers contributed to the strike's defeat.
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