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July 07
July 7, 1882 - Striking longshoremen in New York City held a meeting to discuss ways to keep new immigrants from scabbing. The tactics were successful, at least for a time. On July 14, 500 newly arrived Jews marched straight from the ship to the union hall. The next day, 250 Italian immigrants stopped scabbing on the railroad and joined the union.
July 7, 1890 - The Minnesota Federation of Labor was founded in St. Paul.
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones begins “The March of the Mill Children”, when, accompanied part of the way by children, she walked from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt’s home on Long Island to protest the plight of child laborers. One of her demands: reduce the childrens’ work week to 55 hours - 1903
Some 500,000 people participate when a two-day general strike is called in Puerto Rico by more than 60 trade unions and many other organizations. They are protesting privatization of the island’s telephone company - 1998
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