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The Very First Labor Day. The very first Labor Day was held on a Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City. The day was celebrated with a picnic, concert and speeches. Ten thousand workers marched in a parade from City Hall to Union Square. Today, Labor Day is celebrated across America as a legal national holiday every first Monday of September.

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The Fair Labor Standards Act) establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, record-keeping, and youth employment standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments.

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The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (also known as the Wagner Act)  is a foundational statute of United States labor law which guarantees basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, and take collective action including strike if necessary.

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The Taft-Hartley Act became law despite President Harry Truman's veto. Also known as the Labor-Management Relations Act, it passed Congress in 1947 and established guidelines to correct unions' unfair labor practices. Taft-Hartley did several things to regulate labor practices in the United States.

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The 1930s General Motors Sit Down Strike occurred in 1936, lasting through 1937. Factory workers working for the General Motors company had absolutely no rights and were threatened and punished if they were caught talking about unionizing. Union members met secretively in basements and garages to avoid spies and lip-readers. When he sit-downs occurred, management had the city police as well as their company police use force such as tear gas, rifles, and fire bombs against the laborers on strike. Women stood up for themselves and their husbands being attacked, and the police gave in. This strike resulted victorious.

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The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in the labor history of the United States at the time, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days.

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The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894 and a turning point for US labor law despite result of this strike being unsuccessful.

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The Haymarket Affair  was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers the previous day by the police. An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they acted to disperse the public meeting. The bomb blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians; scores of others were wounded.

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The Great Southwest railroad strike of 1886 was a labor union strike involving more than 200,000 workers. At least 10 people were killed, and the  unraveling of the strike within two months led directly to the collapse of the Knights of Labor and the formation of the American Federation of Labor. This strike lasted from March to September of that year.

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The 13th Amendment of the United States' Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." This is relevant to the history of labor because it not only deems slave work unconstitutional, but it also sets boundaries for unfair treatment in the workplace.

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. It was caused by hazardous working conditions and resulted in 146 deaths along with 71 non-fatal injuries. This disaster created more incentive for factory workers to unionize.

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Peter J.Mcguire was an American labor leader of the nineteenth century. He co-founded the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America in 1881 and became one of the leading figures in the first three decades of the American Federation of Labor. He is credited with first proposing the idea of Labor Day as a national holiday in 1882.

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Samuel Gompers was an English-born, American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.  He helped found the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions. When it was reorganized as the American Federation of Labor in 1886, Gompers became its first president, serving, until his death in 1895.

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The NLU, founded in 1866, was the first national labor federation in the United States. It failed to persuade Congress to shorten the workday and therefore dissolved itself in 1873. However, it paved the way for many other labor organizations like it.

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The "officially Noble and Holy Order" of the Knights of Labor was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. The Knights of Labor ended up failing because of a series of ineffective strikes, disagreement with organization leadership, and a bombing at a demonstration.

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The AFL was a national federation of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December of 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected fromthe Knights of Labor.