On May 10, 1837, New York City banks announced they were suspending specie payments. This began the Panic of 1837, the first of the nation's many major periodic economic collapses.
On May 8, 1959, Local 1199, the union of New York hospital workers, went on strike. This action, while not really successful, played a critical role in not only organizing.
On April 9, 1923, the Supreme Court ruled in Adkins v. Children's Hospital that states or the federal government setting minimum wages for women was unconstitutional, as it violated the.
On April 2, 1937, workers at the Hershey Chocolate Corporation in Hershey, Pennsylvania sat down on the job. Following the lead of the General Motors workers in Flint, Michigan a.
On March 28, 1959, railroad worker union leaders in Mexico that threatened to shut down the nation were arrested. The government crack down, its firing thousands of workers and arrest.
On March 24, 1934, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Tydings-McDuffie Act. Better known as the Philippine Independence Act, Tydings-McDuffie initially sounds like a victory for anti-colonialist forces. However, a.
On February 14, 1940, a group of Navajos named Scott Preston, Julius Begay, Frank Goldtooth, and Judge Many Children wrote a letter of protest to their congressman, John Murdock of.
On February 13, 1837, the Equal Rights Party, better known as the Loco Focos although that was a pejorative from the city's Whigs, held a rally in City Hall Park.
