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July 3Feminist and labor activist Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860. Her landmark study, Women and Economics, called for the financial independence for women and proposed a network of child care centers. July 5The National Labor Relations Act, or Wagner Act, was signed into law in 1935. The act, which stated that collective bargaining was in the national interest, led to significant gains in union organizing. The act also established the National Labor Relations Board to administer union representation elections, define employers' unfair labor practices, and enforce the legal rights or employes to join unions. July 5This day became known as "Bloody Thursday" in San Francisco when in 1934 the city's mayor called out the police in an effort to hold off a strike by longshoremen. The longshoremen were angered by employer practices, among them hiring that perpetuated blacklisting and favoritism. At least two died and one hundred were injured. Workers responded with a general strike, which prompted arbitration, winning longshoremen many of their demands. July 6In 1933, delegates from four unions formed the National Leather Workers Association. July 6In 1892, striking workers battled "Pinkertons" -- hired detectives who were predecessors of today's unionbusters -- trying to get into the Carnegie Steel Works in Homestead, Pennsylvania by way of the Monongahela River barge. July 8Labor organizer Ella Reeve Bloor was born in 1862. Among her activities were investigating child labor in glass factories and mines and going undercover to verify for federal investigators the conditions Upton Sinclair revealed in The Jungle, his expose of immigrants' exploitations by Chicago meatpackers. July 19A two-day women's rights convention began in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Some 260 women attended the meeting to discuss their social, civil, and religious rights, including the right to work for a living and collect their own wages. July 29In 1970, the United Farm Workers forced grape growers to sign a contract after a five-year strike.
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