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Today in Labor Histtory Apr 29 Coxey’s Army of 500 unemployed civil war veterans reaches D.C., more

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Coxey’s Army of 500 unemployed civil war veterans reaches Washington, DC - 1894

When their demand that only union men be employed was refused, members of the Western Federation of Miners dynamited and destroyed the $250,000 mill of the Bunker Hill Company at Wardner, Idaho - 1899

April 29, 1915 - The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom was founded at The Hague. WILPF works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all. WILPF's first president, Jane Addams, founded and directed Hull House in Chicago for newly arrived immigrants.

Learn more at http://www.wilpf.org/US_WILPF

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_04_29_2011

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