TODAY’S LABOR HISTORY: September 5
Chris Garlock | Published on 9/5/2025
1882: 20,000 to 30,000 marchers participate in New York's first Labor Day parade,
demanding the eight-hour day.
1934: Ten thousand angry textile strikers, fighting for better wages and working conditions, besiege a factory in Fall River, Mass., where 300 strikebreakers are working. The scabs are rescued by police using tear gas and pistols on the strikers.
1946: 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.