05 September

20,000 to 30,000 marchers participate in New York’s first Labor Day parade, demanding the eight-hour day. Five years later Labor Day is observed as a legal holiday by the state for the first time – 1882

“Palmer raids” on all IWW halls and offices in 48 cities in U.S.  Alexander Palmer, U.S. Attorney General, was rounding up radicals and leftists – 1917

General strike begins across U.S. maritime industry, stopping all shipping. The strikers were objecting to the government’s post-war National Wage Stabilization Board order that reduced pay increases negotiated by maritime unions – 1946